Film Quotes · Page 121

My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this film.'

— Alicia Vikander

When I look at my films, all I see is everything that went wrong.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

— Anthony Burgess

Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.

— Steven Sebring

People see images now more than they see movies.

— Parker Posey

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

— Alfred Molina

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

— Neil Marshall

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

— James Broughton

I abhor badly-written characters and any character, be it man, woman, any character in the film. If it is a well-written character,…

— Sayani Gupta

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to…

— Christopher Walken

I'm not avoiding the Tamil film industry because I'm making Hindi films. It's just that I'm extremely busy with Bollywood commitments.

— Prabhu Deva

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

— Zoe Kravitz

I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies,…

— Matthew Broderick

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the…

— Steve Martin

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool…

— Bryan Greenberg

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one…

— Willem Dafoe

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very…

— Kathy Bates

I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then…

— Anthony Minghella

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band…

— Tim Gane

The best directors leave you alone. If they've cast you in the part, hopefully they believe you have the gumption to interpret…

— Brenda Fricker

Eventually, I think, by using such elements as flocks of birds or biblical quotes, repeatedly I add meaning to my final product.…

— Mamoru Oshii

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to…

— Tamzin Merchant

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years.…

— Roger Ross Williams

Every phase of a film has to go against what was done in the previous one.

— Albert Serra

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

— Robert De Niro

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

If the situation, my role, and the people involved in the film demand something, I will do it.

— Prachi Desai

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

— Guillaume Canet

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

— Alex Cox

You hear nightmare stories from young filmmakers working in Hollywood, being told what to do.

— Justin Lin

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

— Irrfan Khan

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

— Steven Spielberg

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I feel that 'Rudraksh' is Mani Shankar's answer to Steven Spielberg.

— Suniel Shetty

I don't want to just do any acting role that comes just for the sake of getting in a film.

— Jay Sean

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

— Anurag Kashyap

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

— Bennett Miller

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

— Daniel Clowes