Solas Film Quotes

I've always loved ... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas. ~ Sam Raimi

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything. ~ Elle Macpherson

I haven't done any major filming with a major production company yet, but I've definitely done a lot of filming with a lot of professionals, filmers, and film little edits and put them up online. But I would definitely say that slope style skiers are entertainers as much as they are athletes. ~ Nick Goepper

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed. ~ Alexander Payne

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay. ~ Terry Teachout

I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it? ~ Ridley Scott

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop. ~ Brad Pitt

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity. ~ Peter Dinklage

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood. ~ David Lynch

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do. ~ Damian Lewis

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people. ~ Marcia Gay Harden

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable ~ Michael Haneke

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line. ~ Anthony Michael Hall

Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness ... Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities ... The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away. ~ Terence McKenna

I see film roles as lovely presents that come along now and again. I feel really lucky and say thank you very much. And if they fly me to L.A., I think, 'God, I must really be doing well.' I've worked with De Niro and Brando and Pacino, and that's made me feel very lucky. But the films have never meant a lot to me. ~ Michael Gambon

I love getting into physical shape for a film; it makes me feel more like what the character needs to be. ~ Liam Hemsworth

I have come to realize that the rhythm of the film is one of narrative. I am telling the story. It is as if I were hidden behind the screen, saying: "Then such and such a thing happened." The characters don't seem to be living a life of their own, but a life that is being narrated. Perhaps that's how it should be in a fairy tale. ~ Jean Cocteau

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster. ~ Jacques Audiard

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors. ~ Norman Jewison

I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl. ~ D.W. Griffith

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?' ~ Ray William Johnson

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life. ~ Noomi Rapace

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table. ~ Debbie Allen

It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy. ~ Jon Turteltaub

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably. ~ Helena Christensen

I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.' ~ Juliet Rylance

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

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ~ Theodore Bikel

But sometimes a person who fits none of these categories comes into your life. This is the joker who pops out of the deck at odd intervals over the years, often during a moment of crisis. In the movies this sort of character is known as the fifth business, or the change agent. When he turns up in a film, you know he's there because the screenwriter put him there. But who is screenwriting our lives? Fate or coincidence? ~ Stephen King

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one. ~ Randeep Hooda

I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place. ~ Brad Pitt

I love, love, love live performance. It's like walking a tightrope without the net. You better be on point; you better be balanced. You better have rehearsed it and seen it from every vantage so you can do what you do best. I do love film because it's up front in your face, and hopefully you've got a great editor. ~ Sheryl Lee Ralph

I was 17 when it was being filmed and so I was at an age where you are learning a lot about yourself. I came out of school to film it, and I hadn't been having a good time in school before that. I get quite shy around big groups of people. If I meet people, especially my peers and people my own age, I always struggle because I've always worked with adults and they have a tendency to molly coddle you a bit when you're the youngest on-set. ~ Yasmin Paige

It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it. ~ Patrick Marber

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy. ~ Cory Michael Smith

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. ~ Val Kilmer

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films. ~ Danielle Arbid

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct. ~ Ingmar Bergman

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

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film. ~ Jonathan Nolan