Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Cannes Film Festival, Political, Different

• I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Shooting, Sticks, Film

• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Class, People, Film

• Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Falling In Love, Men, Film

  "Kristin Scott Thomas’s Tough Love". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

• 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Talking, Careers, Oscars

• I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Morning, Play, Trying

• The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Movie, Stars, Space

• People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Mail, Text Messaging

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Men, Numbers, Giving

• Films are just consumables.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Queens, Wall, Home

• I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Character, Giving, Directors

• If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Sheep, Pigs, Scotland

• I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Film

• Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Morning, Sitting, Dull

• Successful films are very dangerous things.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Successful, Film, Dangerous

• You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Film, Made, You Choose

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