Quotes About Film

I don't discuss my journey in the Hindi film industry since it is something personal to me.

Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

Youve got all your classic, as you say, murder mysteries and they will continue to appear on our screens. That type of film and TV I dont think will ever go away.

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

I've actually written a children's film called 'The Myth,' which you could say is like a big 'Harry Potter'-esque fantasy for kids, and that's a film I would love to see get made. That's a dream project of mine.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.

I have been parts of some films in the South where I didn't expect certain shots to be shot in a certain way. I wasn't experienced enough; I was very naive. I didn't have the standing of an actor to say that I don't want to do this shot.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

'Naked Gun 33 1/3' I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.

I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

Usually, when I see films that don't have any score attached to them, I think they're beautiful. I love just the naked sound of the voice. That's already music.

I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.