Quotes About Film

I think that one of my favorite movie roles has been a film that I did with Jason Statham that was out last year called 'Safe.' I played the main bad guy in that.

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

I like all action movies, but the ones with Jason Statham are always my favorite.

If you lost a major actor because of a broken jaw, the project collapses.

'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.

I like anything Jennifer Lawrence is in. She's so beautiful.

Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and friendships. I always sort of approached the film with that in mind first, and then thought about the crazy ways that that horror would express itself.

Jessica Lange is my all-time favorite actress.

A film actress that I really admire and look up to is Jessica Lange.

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.

Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.

We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for women like Joan Crawford, like Bette Davis. But then there was a space of time where - I don't know why - it wasn't like that. It became difficult for women to find certain roles after a certain age.

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.'

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

'Captain America: First Avenger' is very much a Joe Johnston film.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

This may sound strange, but I did not join the film industry to be a star and be successful.