Quotes About Film

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy's life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.

Film has a magical process to it. The dailies, and the thing you see on your little film monitor, that's not the same thing that's going to be projected.

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.

During the mid-1980s, I felt my work was getting monotonous. I was shooting continuously, sometimes for 25, 30 films at a time.

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.

We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers' films, it's my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

The reason why those female celebrities are always in filthy moods is not because they're being hounded by men with massive cameras or because Ridley Scott cancelled their film. They just want to get their hands on a cheeseburger.

I had read Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Namesake' and thought it would make a fabulous film, as I could identify with the central character. When Mira Nair announced the film, I wanted to do the role. When it fell into my lap, I was over the moon.

When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.

Moon's' a good movie.