Quotes About Film

I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.'

I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.

The hardest thing which I've experienced is calling up my father, Rance Howard, who's a wonderful actor, and telling him I've had to cut him out of the movie, which I've had to do twice. That's a lump-in-the-throat phone call.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

My first film, 'Leader,' created a lot of political drama. Its release was pushed back twice.

I love movies like 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' that are based on short novellas.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'

I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.

I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.

'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.

I'm American and I wanted my friend and people to see ' Red Army' . I didn't want it to be a film for Russia, although I did show it there and they absolutely loved it.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.