Quotes About Film

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.

I haven't done an international film for a long time.

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].