Film Content Quotes

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.

In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in Husbands and Wives - is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, nervous New York film, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.

I would say that all my films have more content than a 'content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

I know my audience, and they, in turn, know my cinema. When I pick a subject, it's for a family audience. I shoot and edit my films keeping them in mind. I'm dead sure about the product that bears my name.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.

I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. It's a personal thing. I wouldn't want my kids to see it. I certainly believe that freedom of expression shouldn't be taken away, but I also believe you can make movies that are thrilling and exciting without too much violence.

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of films that may never see the light of day, so it ends up being exclusively about the content, material, the characters and the story. Things that you maybe wouldn't get an opportunity to do otherwise. So, as an actor, obviously it's so different.

The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

I make it a point to pick films that tell you a story in an engaging way. I can't compromise on the content. The script has to be substantial and impactful.

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Well, they had to have me in the G-string because this is PG-13, right?

I want to create content for TV and films.