Film Quotes · Page 102

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

— Guillermo del Toro

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

— Thomas Jane

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

— David Leitch

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

— Mike Birbiglia

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

— Rob Marshall

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

— Anne Hathaway

For me, every film is like the first picture. I am very choosy with the director and producer.

— Rajinikanth

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

— Ang Lee

Video looks like reality, it's more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels…

— Michael Mann

Even when I was looking for my first film, I knew I wanted to be in something that was good. I knew…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna…

— Scott Eastwood

After watching 'Dangal,' I called my writer and told him that I wanted to do a sports film for Punjab because no…

— Ammy Virk

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

— Nicholas Jarecki

The release of my first film was a very memorable event in my life. It was stardom overnight. There was a very…

— Asha Parekh

I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.

— Robyn Davidson

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try…

— Robert Carlyle

The film 'The Queen' came about with a producer saying to me that he wanted me to write about the circumstances behind…

— Peter Morgan

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great…

— Channing Tatum

I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I…

— Joe Wright

Lately, I've discovered the Hellenistic bronzes. I'd never really thought about them much, but then there was this marvelous exhibition - many…

— James Ivory

And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes…

— Quentin Tarantino

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it,…

— Dianna Agron

Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a…

— Curtis Hanson

When you're a director, you have great respect for directors. I am really pretty loyal to any director that I am working…

— Lake Bell

Shilpa was never making a film with me and Akshay Kumar.

— Shamita Shetty

I've been a part of cool films without even romancing.

— Rana Daggubati

USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

— Robert Zemeckis

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

— Sasha Alexander

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I have always been slow to sign films, ever since my debut.

— Pranitha Subhash

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To make our cinema international, we first need to make national movies.

— Manoj Kumar

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

I want to do more new-age content, look beyond conventional cinema.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

— Matthew Weiner

I have always believed in quality and meaningful cinema and not quantity.

— Manoj Kumar

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

— Anthony Hopkins

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

— Mahesh Bhatt

If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

— Konnie Huq