Quotes About Film

The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn't like.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.

With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Nothing is more important than the moving image; except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.