Quotes About Film

When I joined films in 2002, there were all kinds of rash and unkind comments that were made about my looks in the reviews.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.

When we did 'The Last Picture Show,' the whole cast was unknowns, and we all got careers from it. Well, I don't think this could be done now.

I've done over 100 auditions, but I was lucky to stumble onto the Internet as it was growing. Because in film, people are not looking at casting completely unknown faces as lead roles.

One day, I read in the newspaper they were looking for an unknown for the film of 'A Taste of Honey.' They auditioned over 2,000 girls for the part of Jo - not as many as they did for 'Annie,' at any rate.

People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined.

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.