top of page
.png){kind=small}
Film Quotes
"For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film."
Film,
20
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
19
"I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well."
19
"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
18
"I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
18
"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
Film,
18
"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."
18
"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
Film,
18
"You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it."
Film,
17
"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."
17
"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."
Film,
17
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
17
"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,
17
"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
17
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
17
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
17
"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
17
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
17
"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
17
"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."
Film,
17
"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."
Film,
16
"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."
16
"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
16
"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."
16
"Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film."
16
"Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement."
Film,
16
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
16
bottom of page