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Film Quotes
"I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there."
Film,
7
"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
7
"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
7
"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
7
"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them."
7
"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
7
"You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no."
7
"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
6
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
6
"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."
6
"And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie."
Film,
6
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
6
"There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making."
6
"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."
6
"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
Film,
6
"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
6
"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
Film,
6
"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
6
"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
Film,
6
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
5
"A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'"
5
"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."
5
"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
5
"I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde."
Film,
5
"I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
5
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
5
"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
Film,
5
"I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty."
Film,
5
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