Quotes About Film

Ang Lee - he is amazing. I think doing a film with him would be breathtaking.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

I love Brian De Palma.

I like to have the actors do their thing. And then brief them what to do differently in take two.

Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.

'Udta Punjab' has a brilliant script.

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.

When I made my first film, 'Shopping,' the reviews were incredibly snooty. They said things like, 'Jude Law is too pretty for the role,' and that's why I don't respect the British press. That kind of small-minded thing doesn't consider what people like.

At a broader level, 'I Am Singh' is an anti-racism film.

The world we live in is like a Benetton ad. It's changed, and we have to appeal to a broader audience. You want younger kids of every race to be able to see themselves in the movie.

I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

I didn't want to be a Hollywood actress who every so often does a Broadway play. I wanted to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie.

Broadway doesn't mean anything in Los Angeles.

I never thought my life's path would take me to Broadway, but when I heard they were creating a musical based on one of Country music's best-loved films, I knew I had to be part of it.

I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television.

In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record.

I think my film 'Laila Majnu' was in theatres for 7 days and I was very excited. I attended as many shows I could in those 7 days because I was seeing myself on the big screen for the very first time. I was very excited. But then, sometimes there were 20 people, sometimes 5 or 1 or 2, that really broke my heart.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

I'm not concerned about Kell Brook. People were asking me about his power, and I don't have much to say about that other than that I haven't seen anything on film that makes him different from anybody else.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

I love the Marx Brothers.