Quotes About Film

I used to watch several films a day when I was a kid. This made me think about taking up acting as a career.

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made.

Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen.

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.

I'd never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.

I admire Mammootty as an actor and I have no issues sharing the screen with him.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

How content-driven cinema worked so well... Yeah, the shift is definitely happening... It is such a good change, and it is the kind of change I would like to see so that we just go to watch a film and not put them into brackets - that this is an art film or commercial movie.

The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the camera. We raise our children to want to be in front of the camera and shine, and that's on us.

I would love to be a part of an interesting, entertaining film in which I shine like never before.

Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.

People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.

'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.

When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.

I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.

No matter how lofty a film is, it becomes a product after entering the market. It has a price. I think no matter what your purpose of shooting it, it has to have artistic value and then sell. But you can't make money if it doesn't have artistic value.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.