Quotes About Films

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.