Quotes About Film

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.

Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

The future of American film lies on television.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equ

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.