Cinema Quotes

"Go ahead, make my day" "It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film, but with David Lynch, it felt very natural and normal" "I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life" "I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that" "The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are" "When you have a good script, you're almost in more trouble than if you have a terrible script" "Film is the art of lying, 24 lies per second." "The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it." "I don't know if anyone will ever sit me down and make me do a blockbuster." "I watch a lot of movies, I understand how to act" "The most exciting thing about film is it gives you a voice, it lets you be heard" "I am such a child of ’80s movies" "I want to work with great directors because they're the ones that are going to make me better" "The best part of a good movie is the moment it ends; you're left hungering for more." "Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing" "I think when you have to do 20 takes for a scene, it gets a little gratuitous there." "I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself." "I’ve always been interested in the concept that every film is a puzzle to be solved" "Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing" "Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint."