Quotes About Film

Reality' would not only be boring without spirit; it would have no meaning whatsoever. No horror film can begin to capture the horror of such a vision: a world without spirit.

It's called Betty Blue," he said. "You watch, I'll translate.

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'