Drew Barrymore Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Sexy, Kids

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

• It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

  Drew Barrymore

  Writing, Sleep, Night

• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

  Drew Barrymore

  Photography, Art, Lying

• I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

  Drew Barrymore

  Travel, Children, Creating

• I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

  Drew Barrymore

  Angel, Men, One Day

• When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

  Drew Barrymore

  Want, Gypsy, Film

• I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sweet, Horror, Film

• When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

  Drew Barrymore

  Appreciate, Sitting, Littles

• I want to be with the man who wants to open a movie studio with me and make films for new, fresh filmmakers who aren't getting a chance somewhere else. I haven't yet had that type of partnership in a romantic relationship.

  Drew Barrymore

  Men, Somewhere Else, Want

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

• I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, School, People

  "Drew Barrymore Admits Her Directorial Debut Whip It Has the Pain of Her Childhood". The Mail on Sunday Interview, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. March 14, 2010.

• I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.

  Drew Barrymore

  Issues, Tears, Actors

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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