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I never had a great role in a great film.
'Tropic Thunder' I think is a great film.
There are no great scripts - just great films.
I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.
I want to carry a really great role in a great film.
Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.
The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
When I see a great film I do wish I was part of it, that happens.
If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.
I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated to give them a profit.
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.
We have a strong tradition in Toronto of really great film writers, and growing up in that climate is a big reason I pursued cinema studies.
I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.
The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
My initial attraction to 'Red Tails' was the opportunity to play a character that was not me. 'Stomp the Yard' was a great film, but I played myself there.
There is a friend of mine that is very into the comic book world, and he showed me '300,' and I looked at it, and I said, 'Wow, that could be a great film.'
The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see .
I love it when I see somebody else make a great film. I think there is a great supportive film community, even though the awards seem to do something weird to that.
You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made.
I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'
You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.
When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.
When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.
Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.
'Stomp the Yard' was a great film. It was a great film, great opportunity. It's the reason I live in Atlanta to this day, that film. But as far as acting goes, it wasn't very challenging. I played me.
Even today, I'm not sure why I make films or what makes me want films. I think it's other people's films. Whenever I see a really great film, I think, 'I want to make a film like that.' And then I never do.
I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
Black Panther is a great film'. It has the most compelling villain of any Marvel movie, and it deals admirably with the issue of diminishing jeopardy in a million superhero films where the world is going to end.
I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.
The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.
Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.
I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.