Film Quotes · Page 123

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

— Keanu Reeves

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

— Colin Trevorrow

All my films have turned out well only because of the director's brilliance, not because of me.

— Vijay Sethupathi

The key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes.

— Steven Soderbergh

Every film that I have done has a special place in my heart.

— Sid Haig

Since I surrender myself to the director, it is important for me to trust him.

— Jisshu Sengupta

“... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.”

— James Agee

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

— Regina King

I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in…

— Claire Denis

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

— Nick Park

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad…

— Max von Sydow

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't…

— Jiang Wen

A movie like 'Sugar' you couldn't make today. The climate for making movies with no movie stars, half of it in Spanish,…

— Ryan Fleck

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

— Marcia Gay Harden

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not…

— Pam Grier

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

— Katrina Kaif

Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were…

— Sam Jaeger

First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out,…

— Dolph Lundgren

As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing.…

— Jen McGowan

I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the…

— Karen Walton

I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking…

— Oren Moverman

I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed…

— Ira Sachs

Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell…

— Noel Clarke

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities…

— Erland Josephson

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay…

— David Duchovny

With my films, I'm targeting the urban multiplexes, the sophisticated media-savvy young crowd.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

— Alexander Payne

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.

— Sasha Grey

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

— Gordon Willis

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.

— Allan Moyle

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

— Roger Ebert

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

— Sam Shepard

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

— Scott Mechlowicz

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

— Nick Nolte

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

— Kenya Barris

“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”

— Brigid Pasulka

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

— Freddie Fox

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

— Harry Shearer

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

— Paloma Faith