Film Importance Quotes

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

If based on popularity, people will come to theaters because of my name, then I would be very happy, but it isn't about Daisy, it is about the director and the film and the co-actors.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

'12 Years A Slave' is a film that is beautifully shot, wonderfully acted, and told in a compelling manner. However, there are some questions, in my opinion, as to its importance. Paramount among those questions is, What does this scenario illustrate that we didn't know or haven't seen before? And why does such a film garner such popularity?

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think, "Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire". These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.

Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to play for the society than an actor.

It's not always about playing the lead. It's also about being associated with an important and good film.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Personally, I don't know what I'd do without films.

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

I don't think of any movie as big or small, after all what matters is content of the film.

It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as "Aquarius" meant to me, as a person and a citizen.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

If people ask me, 'For you, what is your most important film?' I have a feeling that they all sort of want me to answer with one of the Bergman films. But I cannot choose.

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

I have always believed that the choice of your second film is as important as you first film.

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?

I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

The success of 'Bhagam Bhag' was very important.