Quotes About Films

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

There are truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something new to look out for.

I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

One of the reasons - I stopped doing films for about a year and a half because I felt that I was being somewhat used by producers that were trying to get their movies made within a certain budget range and not take care of me.

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

I like independent music because we have a lot of creative freedom to what we want, but when it comes to films we have to give a particular feel to a song because it's situational.

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.

'Rangeela' and 'Daud' are both exciting films. The songs, the music, the dances - they all blend so well.

The films Sony Pictures Classics has distributed throughout the years have been of great inspiration to me. I'm very excited to find such a great home for 'The Rider.'

Sony is looking at 'Descender' as a franchise of films rather than just one movie.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.