Movie Quotes

Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.

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

I don’t want to play a prop in a film.

I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.

There’s no business like show business.

It’s something I never dreamed I’d be doing, making movies.

I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.