Quotes About Film

I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don't use flash, and with digital I can even work in very bad light. Also, it's a relief not to lose photographs to x-ray machines in airports.

Working with Sam Mendes was a dream come true. He's unbelievable as a director.

For me, 'Parmanu' was an awakening of sorts. The film is about a covert mission. It's sometimes unbelievable that we get to recreate a part of history and live an incident that made history and changed the way our country was perceived.

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I'm in the film business remember , and if this were a movie , this is the part where the audience would be screaming for the woman to get out of the house . So that's exactly what I'm doing .

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn't be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.

perfect memory couldn't be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

There could be no picture making," the film director Orson Welles flatly declared, "without pastrami.

I was shooting for 'Heart Attack' in Spain when Trivikram Srinivas garu called me up and told me that we will do a film together.

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

When you are not working in TV and primarily doing film, you're working with one director for a long period of time, so getting to work with 12 different directors in the span of six months is incredible.

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.