Film Quotes · Page 137

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

— Glen Mazzara

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

— Anurag Kashyap

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

— Gerard Depardieu

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

— Lynda Obst

If I want to watch a film, I will watch it irrespective of the medium it is available on.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

— Denzel Washington

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

— Nicolas Roeg

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

— Todd Haynes

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my…

— Dave McKean

I wanted to make '13 Assassins' in the old manner, to use old techniques and not to rely on modern-day ones such…

— Takashi Miike

I like going to the movies by myself. I love going late at night when there's barely anyone in the theater. It's…

— Frankie Ballard

I find that in preparation for a drama you can do a lot of character work and develop the character and know…

— Michelle Monaghan

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre…

— Mary Harron

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same;…

— Al Green

Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and…

— Ben Burtt

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

— Tim Matheson

I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting…

— Doug Aitken

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they…

— Thomas Jane

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I…

— Michael Rooker

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I…

— Jason Reitman

When you're doing an investigation of a company that is doing things that they don't want to be found out, and they…

— David Farrier

The pay window will be: you can choose how and when you see, whether you see it on Comcast or Warner's Cable…

— Eric Fellner

What's great is that each medium has a unique set of things that it does and does well. Film is a visual…

— Noah Hawley

I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the…

— Julia Stiles

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

— Stan Brakhage

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

— Antoine Fuqua

Filmmakers are picking up true incidents from real life and making films, which is good.

— Dharmendra

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

— Victoria Justice

When I see a great film I do wish I was part of it, that happens.

— Diana Penty

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

— Indiana Evans

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

— Sam Mendes

I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.

— Laurie Metcalf

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

— Ron Eldard

In terms of films, I don't like to show pain. I'd like to show hope.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

— Andre Leon Talley

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

— Dustin Hoffman

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

— Conrad Hall