Film Quotes

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

Film is not a form, it has forms

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

Western films don't do very well in India.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.