Quotes About Film

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

My biggest goal was that I have to land a film. Landing a film with Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar... it doesn't happen.

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.

I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

The most learning I do is in meetings and board work and the film room. That's what happens. When you work hard there, you play well on the field. So that's what I do.

A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.

For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.

I enjoy and understand melody before I create it. But the challenge is that I've also got to satisfy the film going audience of today.

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

When I did 'Memento,' independent film was where all the really good stuff was.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.

I used to lock myself in my room and memorize scenes from films and reenact them when I was alone.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.