Quotes About Films

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

I have got good films, and I am thankful to Aditya Chopra. He put a lot of faith in me.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

several of which are in development as films. His fiction has been nominated for or won an Anthony, Barry, Macavity, Strand Critic's Circle, Readers' Choice, Crimespree, Dilys, Crime Shot, Indie Lit, Romantic Times, and ITW Thriller

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.