Films Quotes

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

It's nice that we have all these different films.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

I have died in enough TV and films.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

I make films about working class people.

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

I consider all my films experiments.

I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

I personally like to do independent films.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

My films, no one else will do.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

My intention is to do more films.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

I do like fantasy films.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.