Quotes About Film

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

When you get to work with a good director, an actor's job gets reduced to half.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

I did do a film that I refer to as 'The Unpronounceable' by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I had a bit part in there. That was quite fun, doing scenes in French.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

I love those moments in any movie or film where there's a reference to a bigger picture, especially in Marvel where everything is connected.

I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to them in their life. And I'm really keen to get back to film as a reference to real things, not necessarily to other films.

I find it difficult to write with reference to the most memorable moments in film, when for me the best moments in films are truly irreducible.

The great thing about being a producer on a project is that you get to see the ins and outs of every piece of the puzzle. There are so many elements involved in every aspect of a film's development that I don't think the average person is aware of, which is, I guess, why the whole process is referred to as movie magic.

'Nuvvla Nenila' is an out and out love entertainer. The screenplay of the film is very good and director Nakkina Trinadha Rao has handled the film superbly.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

To film with our family is awesome - you have to hang out with each other, and I love that because I hate being alone.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I'm never happier than when I'm on set.

When the audience appreciates your film, that's the happiest feeling for an actor because at the end of the day, you are making a film for them. When they like it and appreciate it, you feel your work is done.

Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so that was kind of interesting to me.

I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way.

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.