Film Quotes · Page 132

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

— Alex North

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

— Adam Sandler

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

— Elizabeth Bowen

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

— Charlotte Rampling

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

— Michael Madsen

I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.

— Claude Lelouch

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

— Takashi Miike

Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

— Penelope Cruz

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films…

— Duncan Jones

When you are in your initial stages of a career in films, filmmakers say, be happy that you got a chance to…

— Neha Sharma

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at…

— Robert Ben Garant

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real,…

— Timothy Bottoms

The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made…

— Guillermo del Toro

'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is…

— Anonymous

I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a…

— Jay Duplass

I was busy in making a film called 'Buddha in a Traffic Jam' and it consumed two and half years.

— Vivek Agnihotri

I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything…

— Robert Pattinson

When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But…

— Ethan Hawke

I'm a big fan of Steven Seagal early films. On Deadly Ground, I'll watch that anytime it comes on. That's one of…

— Michael Jai White

It's important to let everybody understand where people are at in the movie, in the sense of the landscape. You need people…

— Ti West

I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want…

— Paul Reubens

It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love…

— Karyn Kusama

You are only part of the film industry if you are doing well, let me tell you. You will be invited to…

— Farah Khan

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

— Sydney Pollack

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

— Toni Servillo

'Prem Granth' was a good film, but it didn't work.

— Raza Murad

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

— Matthew Macfadyen

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

— Rupert Grint

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Some films may work sometimes and sometimes some films don't.

— Kabir Khan

“Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

I think the best black screenwriter is Quentin Tarantino.

— Neal Brennan

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

— A. R. Rahman

It is only the BJP that gave dignity to the film business by giving it industry status.

— Kirron Kher

It's just hard for a multi-camera show: Either they hit big, or they don't.

— Carrie Preston

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

— Sean Penn

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

— Pam Grier

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

— Justin Chadwick