Quotes About Film

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

"Lovelace" was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?

I would love to work on a Bond film.

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously. I can't wait to begin production on my next film so we can be reunited.

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.