Quotes About Films

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

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.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about special effects and it wasn't made for 14-year-old boys. The majority of films are made for 14-year-old boys; I don't know where they get the eight bucks to get in. It's hush money from the parents.

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 am inspired by the films of Pedro Almodóvar, as they are funny, sad, and extremely weird.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in 'Annie Laurie', but I can't recall that it helped much.

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.

It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.

So I even promised Henry's mother that she could act in the films. I mean I even believe that we could put in a close-up of her from time to time, because after all, nearly every photoplay has to have some comedy relief.

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.