Quotes About Films

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.

I made films for soaps and I was the Coca-Cola girl for England. I did a lot popular films, too.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

I try to do films that touch upon social issues or problems that the country or the world is facing.

My son does enjoy my action films. But the women in my family would be happier if I did socially relevant films.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

I do have a soft corner for rom-coms, but at the same time, I like drama, too.

I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.

Sometimes, the money is exciting. You want to buy a house, or a car, and then you jump into it. So, there are a lot of things that come into consideration, and that's fair enough. There may or may not solely be one reason why you do films.