Film Quotes - Page 21

• I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Glowing, Generations

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• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  Manuel Puig

  Ghouls, Exploration, Audience

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• I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Ghouls, Organization

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

  Adam Arkin

  Ghouls, People, Giving

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

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• If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

  Don Bluth

  Character, Funny Things, Games

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• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Pieces, Scripts, Action

  "We're Talking To You, Miss!". Mohican Press interview, www.mohicanpress.com. March 25, 2005.

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• I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

  Dave Rowntree

  Character, Thinking, Funny Things

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.

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• I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.

  Charlie Rowe

  Dream, Careers, Goal

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• Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

  Shane West

  Beauty, Opportunity, Guarantees

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• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  Nathan Lane

  New York, Emotional, Careers

  "If there's a mouse, call Lane - Actor didn't 'paws' before taking on film" by Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 17, 1999.

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• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Thinking, Years, People

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• We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

  John Thaw

  Hands, Cameras, Three

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• I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

  Dougray Scott

  Nice, Hands, Development

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• I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Taken, Hands, Challenges

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• I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

  Patrick Warburton

  Character, Interesting, Typical

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

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• No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

  Mark Rydell

  Careers, Important, Genius

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• All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

  Jack Nance

  Mad, Brain, Genius

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• Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

  John Sayles

  Night, Should Have, People

  "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.

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• I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Hate, Vices, Likes

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• In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

  Michael Berryman

  Art, Honesty, Nice

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Release, Bigger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Denzel Washington

  Movie, Watches

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Political, Apes

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• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  Omar Sharif

  Movie, Thinking, Watches

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• Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Opportunity, Actors, Want

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