Quotes About Film

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

I think I was the only person in my experimental film class doing comedy. But my sense of humor and a lot of comedy that I love is quite surreal and strange, you know? You could argue that 'Monty Python' is experimental film. It just happens to be really funny.

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

The worst imaginable thing happens to our protagonists: they have a son who grows up to become Dennis Hopper. ("Giantess")

Everybody thinks about film, everybody knows films are made somewhere out there, and it's interesting," he said. "But very little is known about what goes on because all of us lie.

He greeted the group by turning to Freeman. "We're trying to cut down on the racial imbalance in this movie," he said with a small smile. Freeman responded in kind. "Spread the ethnicity around," he said. He too was smiling, though his eyes were quite serious.

Akane sighed with relief. Having any more blank periods cutting into the film of her life would be unbearable.

The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

Directing is genderless. The only thing...I love men.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.