Quotes About Film

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

You never know when the publicity people will feel it is a good time to release the film.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.

I make film to make time pass.

Double Indemnity is one of my all time favorites. Thats my favorite.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.