Quotes About Film

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.