Quotes About Film

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

Its nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.