Quotes About Film

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?

If I could make every movie with Richard Linklater, I would.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

I don't think women are being sidelined or ignored. If they are talented enough, they will get films. But they need to be more ambitious.

I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.

People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

'Baadshaho' is not an imaginative film, it's real and made it an entertaining way.

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

I was such a mama's boy that no one imagined that I could come into the film line. She wanted me to do a bank job.

It's really amazing to see what you imagined brought to screen.

Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.