Keir Dullea Quotes

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

You do a film and you have hopes for it, and you read it, and you see it one way in your head, and you shoot it, and it'll always change from what you started out. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes it turns out; I don't know, but as movies go I've never experienced seeing and likening what I've read, and I liked what I read.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

You become the movie you are making.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I really hope everyone who saw 'Twilight' sees 'Warm Bodies,' but at the same time... I don't resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don't judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.