Quotes About Film

Unless it's a song and something fancy, I would rather shoot on location.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it.

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.

'Belle de Jour' is a film I loved and watched almost continuously because the style fascinated me.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project.

I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find making a play amazing, and working with my band and scoring things... it's all really cool. I'm just a glutton for experience, really.

There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.

A lot of the time, what happens is, when you shoot in L.A., you tend to be able to do things faster, believe it or not.

When I take up a project, I'm not foretold its fate... I don't know whether the film will shape up well or not.

Sometimes, the fate of a film is not in your hands, and you can only take home some experiences and what you got to learn during the journey.

I may have got a little carried away and many critics found fault with some aspects of the film, but as a coming of age film of a character, 'Vaaranam Ayiram' worked with the audience.