Quotes About Film

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.

The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

I'm connected to a Wesley Snipes, and I'm connected to Giancarlo Esposito because of the history of films that we've all been a part of with Spike Lee.

I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor, was a film I did about the founder of Pakistan called 'Jinnah.'

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

The one thing I try to do is bring something to my fight scenes that no other film fighter could ever do.

Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.