Quotes About Film

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

I'm a big fan of IMAX/3-D films; I love that whole experience.

It is immensely enjoyable to work for an album because there's a lot more creative freedom. In films sometimes, all that the makers care about is making the music commercially appealing.

I'd like to be a Marvel character and get in one of those films.

I didn't know how, I didn't know when, but I wanted to act. I wanted to be in films.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

My final ambition is to turn director.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.

You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one.

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

If you had ever told me that the finest film work was going to be done on television, I wouldn't have believed it.

'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

To work in your first film, in your debut as a lead, to work with the finest artists of the country - who doesn't want to do that?

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.