Quotes About Film

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

Haryana has some beautiful places for film shoots.

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully etched.

The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed.

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

'Wake Up Sid' was a very special script. It was director Ayan Mukherjee's first film and it was beautifully written.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

I don't do a film with which I myself won't be happy. More than believing in the script, it should be fun shooting it.

I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

Fellini belongs to nature.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

Film analysis enables us to recognize how the filmmakers have their magic on us, how all the constituent elements of the film have combined to create that magic. Rather than rob us of the pleasures of watching films, this approach affords us the even greater pleasure of deep engagement

Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

a gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it's ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America's story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood.

When you need to escape life's rough edges for a few hours, nothing could beat seeing a great film.

I've always maintained that film directors understand architecture a hundred times better than architects do.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.