Film Quotes - Page 34

• There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Digital, Chance, Welcome

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• I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

  Albert Brooks

  Interesting, Want, Enough

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• There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

  Sean William Scott

  Tattoo, Makeup, Actors

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• My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.

  Sean William Scott

  Brother, Kids, Influence

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• If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

  Sean William Scott

  Guy, Actors, Clown

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• I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

  Milos Forman

  Thinking, Hollywood, Knows

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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.

  Kevin Kline

  Kids, People, Sometimes

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• I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Not Sure, Film Set

  "Age of experience". Interview with Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, Writing, Character

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• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  Miranda Richardson

  Acting, Roles, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Theatre, Lucky

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• In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

  Forest Whitaker

  Moving, Character, Past

  "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". EURWeb Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

  Bryan Adams

  Song, Doe, Film Music

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• If the money's right, I'll do a film.

  Oliver Reed

  Ifs

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• 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.

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• I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

  John Sayles

  Jobs, Needs, Investing

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• To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

  Janet Fitch

  Home, Thinking, Play

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• I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

  Christopher Hampton

  Done, Known, Ifs

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• If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

  Christopher Hampton

  Book, Ifs, Good Book

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

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• There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

  Christopher Hampton

  Book, Successful, Should

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

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• There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

  Christopher Hampton

  Moments, Wanted, 80s

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• Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

  Christopher Hampton

  Nice, Thinking, Good Movie

  "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

  David Cronenberg

  Fun, Problem, Bigs

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

  Tom Cruise

  Believe, Way, Helping

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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