top of page
.png){kind=small}
Film Quotes
"In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down."
40
"You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown."
Film,
40
"It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach."
40
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
40
"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is."
40
"I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me."
40
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
40
"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."
40
"For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film."
Film,
40
"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
39
"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."
39
"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
39
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
39
"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."
39
"I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders."
39
"I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well."
39
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
38
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
38
"In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld."
38
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
38
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
38
"One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well."
38
"I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment."
38
"It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it."
38
"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."
Film,
38
"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."
Film,
38
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
38
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
38
"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
38
bottom of page