Films Quotes

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

My film hero is Crazy Harry. He only pops up in about three or four Muppet films but he is brilliant.

I'm on a real roll. Since I left Law and Order, I've made six films. The whole reason I left Law and Order was I wanted to have a life. That show is a huge commitment.

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

I did important films when I was very young.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly.

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

You want to see women your own age in films.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

Unlike most films, it examines a side of a person's life that's hidden, and I think there's a lot of people who carry around a fair amount of darkness and keep it private for a lifetime. The film is about a very public figure and his very private tragedy.

We love watching Steve's film career flourish. We love watching his films, and we love participating in everybody's success.

I wanted a mix of 'B' films and first-class films, because I don't look down my nose at 'B' films. We have a very good collection of Randolph Scott westerns.

We just wanted to have fun this spring with Normal Theatre and the movies picked are all landmark films which are very different on screen experiences than when you watch them at home on your TV.

In 1983 I began work on CIS thin films. At that time it was our group at Boeing and another group at ARCO who were developing the technology.

This is a Big Boi thang, not an OutKast thang. I'm doing films, but music is my first love.

There's a wonderful sadness and poignancy about those Finnish films. They have people adrift at the mercy of fate. They're heartwarming. I also find them funny. I suppose that makes me an optimist.

I want people to re-evaluate me. My dream would be to make films like Clint Eastwood did... You have to be a self-starter out here at a certain point. It's important to take the reigns or, otherwise, you can be regaled to obscurity so quickly.

The secret to a lot of these films is allowing the time for the movie to breathe a bit (in theaters).