Film Quotes - Page 13

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  Patrick Marber

  New York, Mean, Play

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Cinema, Lasts, Saws

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• You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

  Vir Das

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Investing Money

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• Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

  Sofia Coppola

  Creative, Important, Artistic

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• In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

  Danny Elfman

  Missing You, Tone, Ifs

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• I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Patriotism, Embarrassed

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

  Louis Zamperini

  New York, Race, Names

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• It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

  David Lynch

  Dream, People, Important

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• The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

  Dario Argento

  Heart, Dark, Opera

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• Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Father, Son

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• Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

  Andy Garcia

  Empowering, Desire, Want

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• That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Thinking, Would Be, Cost

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• It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Needs, Tvs

  "An Interview with Rowan Atkinson". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 18, 2003.

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• It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

  Rosamund Pike

  Mean, Games, Support

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• The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Crazy, Phones, Talking

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• I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

  Julie Harris

  Good Day, Hollywood Films, Saws

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• I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

  John Schlesinger

  Looks, Festivals, Berlin

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• They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.

  Meryl Streep

  Sadness, Thinking, Laughing

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• I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Girl, Memories, Believe

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• Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

  Alexey Suetin

  War, Opponents, Chess

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• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  Naturi Naughton

  Giving Up, Focus, Black

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• I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

  Alex North

  Writing, People, Recycling

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• Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

  Norman McLaren

  Unique, Take Me

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• I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Thinking, Lovers

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

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• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Small Moments, Scripts, Fantasy

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