Quotes About Film

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

Songwriting is a mix of fiction and myth. Things are very romanticised. A song is like a film in that you can say anything you want. So there are parts that are based on truth and there are also parts that just sound good or feel good. It's a mixture of the two. It's all imagery. It's not strictly truth.

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

A film is -or should be- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the motion, the meaning, all that comes later.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an articulate film. So articulate. And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.