Film Quotes · Page 149

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

— Gloria Stuart

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

— Abel Ferrara

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

— Claude Lelouch

I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

— Rachel Stevens

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

— Bob Hoskins

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

— Errol Morris

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

— David Hemmings

Most films don't have a budget for a background score, but it is the toughest job to do. We work like donkeys.…

— Amit Trivedi

Once I started 'Nagaram Nidrapotunna Vela' I had to finish it. I made a wrong decision. I knew the film would be…

— Jagapathi Babu

I was told by many well-wishers not to do the film because my role was just a cameo. But it's very important…

— Govinda

Meaningful cinema which lets me explore my talent to the fullest and with different roles is more important to me than just…

— Atul Kulkarni

I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given…

— Todd Haynes

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

— Agnes Varda

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

Whenever you have consolidation, you do that for more economies of scale and leverage in making deals. But when you start losing…

— Tom Silverman

All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters,…

— Richard Sherman

Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the…

— John Malkovich

To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then…

— Tanushree Dutta

Believe me, there is a ton of stuff we shot on Superbad that was unusable, because people were just riffing and riffing.…

— Greg Mottola

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies…

— Mark Strong

There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool.…

— Donnie Yen

Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer…

— Lina Wertmuller

I hope movies like 'Love, Simon' encourage people to be their authentic selves.

— Natasha Rothwell

Could someone like me become a film star? I don't see why not.

— Adam Pearson

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

— Tom Wilkinson

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

— Oren Peli

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

— Maika Monroe

My perception and my way of working change with each film.

— Sanya Malhotra

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

— George Stevens

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

— Nicholas Jarecki

Harold and Maude' is a film I just keep finding myself rewatching.

— Peter Hedges

Movie soundtracks…i love them and they often inpire me in everyday life..

— AXLL_SBLNS

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

— Idris Elba

I want people to think that if I'm in a film, then that film definitely has good content.

— Amrita Rao

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

— Emma Donoghue

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

— Sarah Polley