Quotes About Films

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.