You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“It’s not just about entertainment. It’s about telling stories that audiences connect with emotionally. The way to do this is to make… — Lawrence Levy Copy Share Image
For the longest time I was trying to please others. I can blame the whole world for each film that went wrong… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'Lords of Chaos' is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other… — Jonas Akerlund Copy Share Image
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines,… — Miguel Sapochnik Copy Share Image
Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films - where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor,… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
“Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When I came to Mumbai, I was working behind the scenes for 10 long years. Back then, music video budgets were insignificant… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might… — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Having a couple of films that were successful internationally has made the film community aware of the films coming out of Greece. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
In Hindi cinema, the cabaret dancers were eased out when the heroines imbibed their mannerisms. This could happen in Malayalam cinema too. — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
Actually I don't watch a lot of films but when I do, I like experimental, avant garde, European and world cinema. That… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
There's something special about working with picture and adding music to picture that really takes you to a whole new level. It's… — Lior Ron Copy Share Image
As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead… — Lin Shaye Copy Share Image
I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
If you are a producer's son you are never given that benefit of doubt of being new. I had to be good… — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective,… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
I am a little wary of entering another situation where I would just be another director for hire and I've been doing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image