Power of Film Quotes

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

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.