Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film’s final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made. – David Mitchell
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around. – Martin McDonagh
One of the major aspects of film composing is that it’s not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background. – Marco Beltrami
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies. – Douglas Coupland
Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It’s an excellent film. – Dwight Schultz
I think of ‘The Hobbit’ as more like a boy’s own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s. – Mark Hadlow
The director is planning on titling the film ‘Yummy Fur’ so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to ‘Yummy Fur’ to match the film. – Chester Brown
I love film sets, but I don’t necessarily love being the center of attention. – Mary Stuart Masterson
There’s a recent film, the Swedish movie ‘Force Majeure.’ I just thought it was brilliant. – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
There’s no point in making a film out of a great book. The book’s already great. What’s the point? – Neil Jordan
Dragon’s Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film. – Don Bluth
The film’s dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. – Edward Dmytryk
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. – Dwight Yoakam
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people’s self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. – George Michael
Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies. – David Puttnam
In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done. – Mel Smith
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor. – Martin Donovan
When I worked on 2001 – which was my first feature film – I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. – Douglas Trumbull
My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry. – Debbie Reynolds
Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores. – Marco Beltrami
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in ‘Lawless.’ John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. – Dane DeHaan
