Quotes About Film

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I got the part in the film and quickly learned how unimportant I was. It was shot in a rather grand house in Hampstead. You could tell the owners were rich. The place was decorated with that disregard for either fashion or comfort which only the British who inherit wealth seem to manage.

Please forgive me, Mother. I apologize for saying 'fuck.'" Then he straightened and addressed Doug. "Which, by the way, was repeated sixty-seven times in this particular film. It has a running length of ninety-four minutes. So last night while watching it, she heard fuck, or a derivative thereof, spoken every one and a half minutes, give or take a few seconds. But if my saying fuck offended her, then I'm fucking sorry.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

Under the glitzy, glamorous surface of the simplest popcorn flick, there were often hidden depths of meaning.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

Even though universal metanarratives are largely absent, personal "I" narratives are everywhere. The popular imagination is saturated with self-obsessive stories in film, television, advertising, music, MySpace, and YouTube—but this is the equivalent of bingeing on junk food while dying for want of substance.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.