Quotes About Film

I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be this, "He's an independent film guy." It sounds like, "He makes his own dresses."

I'm torn. I want an 'R' (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.

Bigger budget features are the juice. Delicious juice you want to spill all over yourself.

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

People don't want to read subtitles.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

Peter [Facinelli] would be so good at doing that. I want him to do the Beyoncé biopic.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.