Quotes About Film

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

With 'Avatar,' you're beginning to see the need for less and less actors and less of an appreciation for live acting.

I look to films to learn and to see different avenues that you can take in growing up.

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That's what I'm trying to do.

Gujarat is very close to me. I won my first best actor award for my Gujarati film 'Kadla Ni Jod.'

As an actor, you want to do your best but not overshine the film. No actor is above the film.

There's no money in documentaries.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.

I had my own documentary that I filmed in D.C., which is where I'm from.

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?

Domino is all about... as an actress and as the character that is going to be on the screen, you already allude to it: it's all about the sass.

I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

My dream actress to work with would be Amy Adams.