Quotes About Film

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

We couldn't predict what would happen with 'Roots.' You knew there were powerful moments that were going to affect people. We were making the film while the book was being completed. We were fortunate because the hardcover book was out and on the best-seller list. The heat was still on.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

I prefer working behind the camera.

I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.

I think a lot of people prefer watching films on TV, in the comfort of their homes.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.

He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.

In a film festival, people come to watch because they are interested in cinema. It's not like watching a premiere show or being in any cinema hall, where you are not with like-minded people.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!'

When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking.