Personal Film Quotes

When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatrical distribution. We've been frozen out of that, which means they must be aware that for a full theatrical distribution it either has to be something like Saw or some exploitation film of today or an extremely well made personal film.

I'd like do a film which I can carry entirely on my own.

'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

I wouldn't mind doing my own film on the big screen. That'd be cool.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Bhavesh' is my most accessible film for sure.

I did New York, I Love You which is a very personal film for me. My most personal film, but it's not like a film I've ever made. I would never do that film as a feature, for instance, because it's not very commercial of an idea.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

I know I have trouble watching my own films.

I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.