Quotes About Film

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.

Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.

While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.

I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the first time I've played a character who is alive.

We didn't have the time to watch playback all the time so I depended on my team [All We Had].

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.