Quotes About Film

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

Gary Ross is amazing.

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiyaraaja and Shreya Ghoshal.

I don't know if I make the best gay films.

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.

I do consider myself a film geek. I love television and film.

I got into film school thinking I was going to make features, like every other film geek.

I am a movie geek, yes!

I just think, you know what, some of the most astute fans I know are film geeks, film lovers, and watchers, and I am now proud to be one of them. So I am, hopefully, going to be accepted into the club of geek!

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.

I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music for a film is fascinating to me.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.