Quotes About Film

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Every young actor wants this feeling of being the solo lead in a film.

Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.

It'll be really cool to do, like, a solo film, a Firefist movie. I don't know if it would happen.

It's never so that a film is an ensemble or solo. You do it if you like it and if you don't like it, you don't do it. The idea is to play the character in which you are not replaceable.

When I'm not doing solo shows, I'm performing with my cowboy band Los Pacaminos - we play the kind of music you'd hear in Tarantino films.

Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

I like 'Brawl in Cell Block 99.' I think Vince Vaughn is incredible and I've never seen Don Johnson like that. It is very realistic. Some people say it is a horror film. It is not a horror film at all. It is very realistic.

I like 'Bright.' Some people didn't like 'Bright' - I loved it. I love that film for how blatantly obvious the analogies are.

The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.

Films were always there at the back of my mind. I would try to move away, but films kept coming to me. I would do movies for friends. I guess some things are meant to be!

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have been conveyed just through expressions and no lines.

Some things shoot in Chicago, but even those things that shoot there still cast their bigger roles in L.A. or New York.

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

About film direction, nothing is impossible. Maybe someday, you will see me donning the director's hat.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

I want to make a movie with Al Pacino someday.

The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday I'd make a feature.

I have always wanted to make a movie, in fact I always wanted to direct someday. But I never thought I would be a producer.

It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.