Quotes About Film

I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.'

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

When you have the blue screen, you've got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor.

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

Sequels are desperate.

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

Despite a good subject if the director is not up to the mark, the execution can go wrong.

There's something about Cannes being this ultimate film destination, and we're passionate about films; we grew up with foreign films.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

I started developing 'The Revenant' before 'Birdman.'

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

I love the camaraderie that develops on film sets and ensemble casts. It's really special.

I'm totally devoted to '30s cinema.

I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.

I love to see great dialogue in the cinema but I hate to see 'Film TV.'

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.