Best Film Quotes

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The great thing about an independent film is that you’re too busy working, and you’re too busy hoping to God to get it done.

One of the reasons I’m so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.

I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

I’ve got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it’s rare that you get to explore that in a film.

I don’t look back, no. Maybe when I’m older; people say, ‘What’s your favorite film?’ I say, ‘My next one.’ I’m not interested in sitting around; I just don’t, never have.

Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it’s also a country based on racism and they don’t talk about that too much and every time there’s a film which deals with it there’s certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism – and we’ve had our lesson there. I don’t want to create a revolution – I just want to create a few more films.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it’s awesome.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

This is a career about images. It’s celluloid; they last for ever. I’m a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we’re free on paper and in law, I’m not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you’re free. You start in the corner and you don’t know where it leads you. I have no message, I have nothing I want to tell, I just start and I see where it leads, and it’s a big surprise and relief if it’s good. That’s the ideal state for filmmaking.

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.

I hate films with a clear message, ones that have their answers already when they start.

When I make films, I’m very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.

All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. Its all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing.

Making movies in France is different, but it’s still acting, you know. You still have doubts and you’re scared, always, but I really love doing films in America, because I love to speak English. But I think there’s something very entertaining about American films. But I also like the intimacy of French films.

To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people want (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

The character is important, of course, but I like when there’s intelligence in a movie. I like when it’s, how do you say, sensible. So for me a film is very subjective, and it’s a point of view. I like to be brought into a world of a director.

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn’t studied acting before. I didn’t know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.

I’d love to do just straight theatre. I’d love to do film and television, too.

It’s been too many years since I’ve played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it’s you seen through someone else’s point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.