Quotes About Film

In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of the pranks from these guys.

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

I love that it's such an uncynical film [Swiss Army Man]. I think it's got a lot of love in there, and I think that's a nice thing in this day and age.

I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.