“I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.” CharacterFilmFacesChoicesInterestingCuttingProjectsMajorsTheaterFlagsDollsAmerican Flag Author:Amanda Plummer
“In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.” KnowsSometimesDoneFilmMovingChoicesCausesTvsTrainPainfulSchedulesTake Your TimeMake Things Right Author:Seth Gordon
“Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.” IfsThinkingI CanHappensFilmChoicesDealsCareersClearBalance Author:Lukas Haas
“You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.” WantNeedsFilmChoicesRealizingFourCuttingColorDirectorsAlternativesIdentical Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.” PeopleThinkingLongMadeImportantSometimesReasonFilmChoicesTakenStreetsComplimentSurvived Author:Matt Dillon
“I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that I like to see. Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. Does that make any sense?” ThinkingWellsKindMeanDoeMightFilmChoicesReadingScriptsGet BetterMaking Choices Author:Benicio Del Toro
“I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.” IfsImportantFilmChoicesClothesDaily LifeCrucialCostumes Author:Clemence Poesy
“If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.” IfsYearsFilmChoicesNaturalPerfectCareersCoupleNatural History Author:Dominic Monaghan
“I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer. Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong? Those universal questions, I enjoy.” HappensFilmChoicesEnjoyAnswersDealsUniversalRamifications Author:Dominic Monaghan
“Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.” IfsHas BeensFilmChoicesPiecesTheatre Author:Darren Boyd
“It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.” FilmChoicesFightingEgoAlways FightingMake Your Own Choices Author:Taylor Hackford
“Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.” ShowsFilmChoicesBlackWhiteMiddleTelevisionColorLateFinanceBlack And White Author:John Boorman
“Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.” ThinkingMadeShowsFilmChoicesSupportTvsDirectorsComposerTv Shows Author:Robert Lopez
“The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].” FeelsStoriesFilmChoicesSpeakDecisionAudienceSuccessfulHorseBeing SuccessfulGambleAssassination Author:Brad Pitt
“I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.” IfsMadeSaidFilmLyingChoicesShotsHave Faith Author:Ethan Hawke
“A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.” FeelsMadeMomentsFilmChoicesSoundNovelDogReaderPhotographySentencesChosenThat MomentCaptureBarking Dogs Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.” WritingMindDoneEnoughShowsHomeBigsRealityBeautifulFilmChoicesMorningColdTestsFinishedSatisfiedDramaticGapsScrewed UpWrong ChoicesCold Morning Author:Woody Allen
“The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.” ThinkingWayWarStoriesFilmGuyCertainChoicesConversationDegreesNewsRadioBackgroundsReactionsPersonal StoriesRadio News Author:Elijah Wood
“I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.” FeelsMindKindEnoughFilmCertainChoicesLeftLosesChallengesLinesMorningLike YouAmountExerciseSceneIncrediblesStudiosHopefullyFeedingStaminaGood Choices Author:Glenn Close
“The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.” KnowsWayFilmChoicesLanguageGrowsDecisionFiguresPossibilityDirectorsLimitsMake SenseThemeVisuals Author:Darren Aronofsky
“Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLooksI CanFilmChoicesDealsCriticism Author:Mila Kunis
“So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to make 10 films a career as a filmmaker, and that's a really challenging thing.” MadeStillsStoriesFilmChoicesChallengesCareersIssuesFiguresPsychologicalFilmmakerMelodrama Author:Ira Sachs
“I'm not averse to earning someone; in fact I'd love to earn some money. But also my choices of movies don't tend to make money but I get to make interesting films. But it doesn't mean I don't want to earn shitloads of cash.” WantMeanFactsFilmChoicesInterestingMaking MoneyCashEarning Author:Daniel Craig
“I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.” PeopleThinkingWholeFilmChoicesAudienceArmsHarderIndependentCompetitionObviousStudiosVideoCrushDigitalDistributionExplosionsIndependent FilmDistributors Author:Steve Buscemi
“One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.” PeopleWorldBelieveLooksEarthFilmUsedChoicesStarsWonderTakenOne DayFilledListsLifestyleShockedSaddenedFilm StarsPeople With DepressionLifestyle Choices Author:Alastair Campbell