Quotes About Film

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later!

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Film is something that came later into my life.

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.