Quotes About Film

'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.

My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

The reason I haven't got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I'm tempted to do something I'll regret later.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

If the audience shows that it is interested in films portraying strong women, then the producers will be tempted to make such films.

We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

Not only did we read a lot at home, we also watched a lot of films. So I had already seen a lot of films that were about the crucifixion and the temptation of Christ, like Bible history and the Ten Commandments - stuff like that.

With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.