Quotes About Films

Punjabi culture is very strong and we have thousand of stories, which can be turned into films to keep our generations rooted in the culture.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some of them can't even be read, they fall to bits if you open them. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me

I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.

Films like 'Jungle' are rare. It was a powerful role and in the future I would like to be associated with such films rather than being part of nonsense stuff.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.