Denzel Washington Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it's also a country based on racism and they don't talk about that too much and every time there's a film which deals with it there's certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

  Denzel Washington

  Country, Rights, Racism

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Next, Film

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 10, 2014.

• A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

  Denzel Washington

  Criticism, Tables, Might

  "Denzel Washington". Book by James Robert Parish, 2009.

• I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

  Denzel Washington

  Movie, Watches, Film

• One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Film, Good Things

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

• Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then - I know I help that, let's put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Important, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've just directed a film called The Great Debaters, which is inspired by a true story about a young college debating team in the thirties and two of those people are still alive and we put them on tape on the film and I'm sure that will be added to the DVD, and to get the opportunity to do that is very cool.

  Denzel Washington

  Team, Opportunity, College

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

• People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.

  Denzel Washington

  Cutting, Men, Long

  Source: collider.com

• [Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Australia, Film

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

• In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.

  Denzel Washington

  Guy, Blade Runner, Facts

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

• If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

  Denzel Washington

  Writing, Effort, Film

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• After directing the first film it feels kind of tricky being back to being in front of the camera, because I've always got one eye over there, kind of thinking of what they are doing, and how the shot is being composed. I think it takes a couple of films to just get back to just being an actor.

  Denzel Washington

  Couple, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

• The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Film, Reason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I called Scott Rudin, and I told him I wanted to do the play [Fences], so that's how the ball got rolling. I never said, "I'll do the play, and the next year I'll do the film, I just wanted to do the play."

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Play, Next

  Source: shadowandact.com

• There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

  Denzel Washington

  Nice, Home, People

  Source: movieweb.com

• I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Looks, Sitting

  "Denzel Washington Has Deja Vu". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. November 20, 2006.

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