Olivia de Havilland Quotes

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

In many ways, 'Lords of Chaos' is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other movies. I approached my other films like I did my music videos or commercials, like jobs. But 'Lords of Chaos' I wrote myself, and it's a close, personal story.

'Finding Dory' just stole my heart. Little Dory was the most adorable thing in the entire world, and Ellen DeGeneres killed the game. I liked the flashbacks to the past - it gave you a bit more perspective and appreciation for certain characters.

Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.