Film Quotes · Page 155

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

— Joel Kinnaman

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

— Steven Bochco

“Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.”

— Connie Willis

I had wanted to make a point-of-view film for a long time.

— RaMell Ross

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

— Mira Nair

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

— Pink

I think, for an artiste, it's important to be aware of world cinema.

— Roop Durgapal

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

— Rod Lurie

I am totally inspired by 'Godfather,' one of the greatest films made. Also, I am fascinated by the thought of how someone…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education…

— Walt Disney

I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing…

— Jisshu Sengupta

There have been times when our career is uncertain, the film industry can be beautiful and judgmental at the same time. There…

— Meghana Raj

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or…

— Jonah Hill

“See, it's all a movie in this country and if you wait long enough you get your happy ending. Until somebody else's…

— Robert Stone

I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no…

— Ben Affleck

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part…

— George Martin

In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything…

— Andy Warhol

I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate…

— Matthew Heineman

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Women know what kinds of laws can really be implemented. I loved in the film where the woman was talking to the…

— Swanee Hunt

“Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions…

— Chuck Klosterman

There's always a level where you think you can improve and do better. Certainly at the beginning... I did four years of…

— Cillian Murphy

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

— Om Puri

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

— Divya Dutta

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

— Gena Rowlands

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

— Jacques Audiard

I remember the glory days of film making. I used to go to the movies a lot.

— Orson Bean

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

— Gabriel Mann

According to me, one composer should do one film.

— Jeet Gannguli

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

— Paul Reubens

I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

— Taylor Sheridan

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

— Liev Schreiber

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

— Alex Gibney

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

— Will Friedle

Films that I want to do are few and far between.

— Angelina Jolie

Stuart Little will go down in history as the most expensive actor in motion pictures.

— Rob Minkoff

Sequels face the risk of being constantly compared to the first film.

— R. Madhavan

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

— Sergio Leone