Houdini Film Quotes

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. ~ Bradley Cooper

To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge. ~ Michael Haneke

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression. ~ Jonathan Tropper

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something. ~ Tim Reid

I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me. ~ Ian McKellen

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened. ~ Roger Deakins

This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people. ~ Christian Cooke

"Bruce" was an Eddie Murphy film, so there was a whole different vibe, working on that film, as opposed to working on a [Adam] Sandler film, which I'd done a few of. First of all, there were tons of kids running around. I'm surprised I ever had a kid after doing that film. ~ Kevin Nealon

So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film. ~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki. ~ Phillip Noyce

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important. ~ Charles Roven

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before. ~ Danny Boyle

I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue. ~ Drew Barrymore

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them. ~ Joe Morton

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic. ~ Robert Rodriguez

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. ~ Baz Luhrmann

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film. ~ Donal Logue

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive. ~ Ben Wheatley

When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film in those days, whether it was Technicolor or Technicolor plus the flatness of the light, or whatever. ~ William Monahan

I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right? ~ Patricia Riggen

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer. ~ Danny Elfman

I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy. ~ Kim Jee-woon

This is the third night you've kept me up crying. Thought I'd give your mother a rest. Right now you haven't mastered English yet so I thought I'd put this on film for you. I want to show you something. Tony, see that? I built that for you and someday you're going to realize that it represents a lot more than just people's inventions. It represents my life's work. Someday you'll figure it out, and when you do, you'll do even bigger things with your life. I just know it. You're the future. I've created so much in y life, but you know what is the thing I'm proudest of? You. My son. The secret to the future is here! ~ Alex Irvine

Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That's where it's coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing. ~ Michelle Yeoh

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow. ~ Catherine Hardwicke

I'm always a little skeptical when I hear people promoting a film and they say it has something for everyone. ~ Rachelle Lefevre

'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.' ~ Russell Crowe

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do. ~ Wentworth Miller

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script. ~ Kevin Barry

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. ~ David Lynch

When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is. ~ Samuel Fuller

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film. ~ Kym Whitley

Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music. ~ T.I.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing. ~ Jean Stapleton

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen. ~ Michael Haneke

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use. ~ Aaron Eckhart

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes, ~ James Cameron

If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy. ~ Lindsay Lohan

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director. ~ William Monahan

The great appeal of film is its relatability. ~ Akira Kurosawa

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. ~ Peter Greenaway

I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements. ~ Martin Campbell

Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go ... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside. ~ Colin Farrell

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. ~ David Brooks

I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, and my first one ... if I come back, I'd love to do another superhero, something different that I can really put my touch on. ~ Louis Leterrier

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films. ~ Kevin Hart