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Of all my films, Babes in Toyland is my favorite. (Allard J)
Working on my first feature film, The Shaggy Dog, was very exciting. (Allard J)
“I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.” (Allard J)
“After Amelie was such a huge success that, strangely, I didn't want to do a movie which could be a huge success. I wanted to go and to do something smaller and more discreet.” (Allard J)
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film. (Allard J)
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. (Allard J)
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin. (Allard J)
Black Sunday feels like a silent film, with a sumptuous visual baroqueness and certain images that are incredibly powerful - the coach and horses, for instance, implying the coach of death, as ominous as any Bergman image. (Allard J)
Cult films usually have an element of unease - anarchy, transgressing certain taboos; they are almost always excessive and camp and speak to the counterculture. (Allard J)
Fellini's universe was filled with processions and parades: occult, mystical, generous, bestial, allusive, full of the fantastical, of mythic odyssey and solitude, composed with great tenderness. (Allard J)
I can recognize if a film is shot in Italy in a nanosecond by the luminosity of its light. (Allard J)
It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism. (Allard J)
It was said that Ricardo Freda wrote Dr. Hichcock in one week on a bet that he could complete a film from beginning to end of editing within one month. (Allard J)
This was unimaginable to me, that one could actually have a great time making a film, that it could be a blast despite the medieval solemnity. (Allard J)
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two? (Allard J)
The show reveals itself to me sometimes; it's kind of spooky. I really dig that. (Allard J)
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on. (Allard J)
You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much. (Allard J)
“I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.” (Allard J)
“We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.” (Allard J)
“The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.” (Allard J)
“The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.” (Allard J)
“The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.” (Allard J)
“I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.” (Allard J)
“You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine,” (Allard J)
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