Harrison Ford Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  Harrison Ford

  Mean, Fiction, Film

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

• Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

  Harrison Ford

  Writing, Film, Inevitable

• I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Ideas, Community

• I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, Games

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

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  Harrison Ford

  Travel, Stars, Book

• There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

• I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.

  Harrison Ford

  Opportunity, Giving, Trying

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

• The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Character, Creating

  "PUM One on One with Harrison Ford". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  "Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford and Director Brian Helgeland Talk 42, Getting Involved in the Film, Jackie Robinson’s Influence and His Portrayal in the Film". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

• I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, (and) hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is [42].

  Harrison Ford

  America, Important, Typical

• I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention to the film that I've made. I care a lot about the movies that I make. I want them to reach an audience, and I want them to be successful. I promote nearly everything that I do, unless I've got some bad taste in my mouth.

  Harrison Ford

  Successful, Opportunity, Attention

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

• [Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

  Harrison Ford

  Book, Writing, Television

• There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

  Harrison Ford

  Independent, Support, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

• That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

  Harrison Ford

  Speech, Branches, Lines

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