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Film Quotes
"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film,
3
"It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock."
3
"Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay."
3
"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."
3
"I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set."
3
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
3
"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
Film,
3
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
3
"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
3
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
3
"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
3
"It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines."
Film,
3
"I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape."
3
"They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors."
3
"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"
3
"I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason."
3
"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
3
"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
3
"I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation."
3
"I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar."
3
"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
3
"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
3
"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."
3
"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result."
3
"There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well."
3
"But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece."
3
"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
3
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
3
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