Quotes About Film

I'd love to be on an Australian show and in Australian cinemas - they've really picked up their game.

I've actually picked up a lot of good habits from just watching film from Demetrious Johnson.

When I was writing the story of 'Omerta' I was not writing it to make a film or something. But when a filmmaker like Hansal Mehta picked up my story and turned it into a film, I thought that now I can consider myself as a legitimate writer.

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

Picking up 'A Gentleman' was pretty easy. It had everything that I like watching in a film. And it has everything that audiences like to see me doing.

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

Everybody hates to edit my film. Back in the day, we called it film - now, my digital cards. But I shoot an awful lot of pictures. I don't want to hesitate, because I believe the moment is everything in a picture. So, I take the pictures.