Quotes About Film

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

"Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

I never had a great role in a great film.

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.

I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.

All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

I like "Talk to Her" by [Pedro] Almodovar and "Happiness" by Todd Solondz, "Mullholland Drive" by David Lynch .

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.