Quotes About Film

Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

Everybody says they want good films and when one turns up, they go watch item songs.

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

Being offered the role in the Jackie Chan film was amazing. I got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan.

When I did 'The Green' with Cheyenne Jackson, I was the lead of a film for the first time. That was really fun; I hadn't dug in to a part like that before.

Jacques Audiard has always been an outlier in a French film industry that is starkly bifurcated between high and low.

I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And that I think is probably a little more true because I'm a woman.

Rom-coms are my jam.

I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.

The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were never going to hire me for a 'James Bond' film off 'Swingers.'

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Jane Campion is a tough director.

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

It wasn't really my intention to make movies quickly - it's more to do with the reality of the Japanese film industry. That's been the only way for me to change my situation; to prove how little time you need to make a good film.