Quotes About Film

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It's a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn't really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Im not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.