Quotes About Film

I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help with the words.

I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

I'm very lucky. Most of my friends wait long times for jobs and also don't get the chance to work on 20 films, like I have, with someone like Scorsese. I love working for him. I just would never - I can't imagine working for anybody else.

Scorsese is very nice. He's small; he's energetic.

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

There's huge potential in China. They have about 50,000 screens and they need content, which we produce a lot.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about projects - whether that's on stage or television or film, that's the kind of environment I want to work in.

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.