Film Quotes · Page 117

I am always nervous before the release of any film.

— Richa Chadha

Whether the role or the film is big or small, doesn't matter to me. It has to excite me.

— Rajpal Yadav

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

— Mark Gatiss

I don't watch the kind of cinema where people say, 'Leave your brain at home,' and watch.

— Shweta Tripathi

You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.

— Rhys Ifans

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

— Ang Lee

When you watch a film like 'Warning,' you would realize that it can't be made with stars.

— Anubhav Sinha

If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

— Ryuhei Kitamura

That the film turned out to be coherent is a miracle. That it is successful proves there is a God.

— Martin Brest

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but…

— Harold Ramis

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't…

— George Foreman

Working with Christopher Plummer, I mean, he's a legend. I was so, so nervous even meeting him, but he made me feel…

— Verne Troyer

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance…

— Abhishek Bachchan

I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film…

— Greta Gerwig

I've seen 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' about 25 times each, so I like all kinds of movies, but I'm…

— Casey Affleck

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed,…

— Brett Gelman

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not…

— Helen Mirren

It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware…

— Leonard Maltin

I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that…

— Lars von Trier

So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to…

— Ira Sachs

I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors.…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of…

— Matthew Weiner

I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to…

— Jennifer Lawrence

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,…

— Zac Posen

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

— Danny Boyle

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

— Harrison Ford

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

— J. J. Abrams

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

— Francois Truffaut

You give me that kind of feeling people write movies about.

— Anonymous

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

— Kristen Stewart

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

— Goldie Hawn

Ad Astra' is a visually beautiful film but the story is the interesting part.

— Lorne Balfe

Directing is a way of looking at something and then communicating it.

— Elaine May

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

— Anonymous

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

— Orson Welles

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

— Mary Schmich

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

— Mike Leigh

I make commercial films only. I don't make small, boring films.

— Farah Khan

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

— Daniel Radcliffe

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

— Quentin Tarantino