Quotes About Film

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

It still feels like an honor to bring something [on Sundance].

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.