Quotes About Film

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

I have trained, but not really that much professionally. But 'ABCD2' has been the biggest training ground. I've been exposed to and learnt so many dance forms through this film.

The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.

I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

I have great expectations about 'Trance.' It has been in the making for two years and we shot in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, places in Kerala and in Mumbai.

We are a nation of film lovers, and films have often been a cultural glue that binds us all in a way that transcends geography.

For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they could transfer the footage later and make it look animated.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be best for me. I'm really happy to inhabit the world of independent film.

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

I'm a real geek and fan when it comes to 'Transformers.' I remember being at my first rehearsal for this film, and I looked over and saw the tractor trailer. I was thinking to myself, 'Oh, my. That's Optimus Prime.'

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.