Film Quotes · Page 165

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

— Ang Lee

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

— Danny Boyle

If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

— Ryuhei Kitamura

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

— Harrison Ford

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

— Francois Truffaut

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

— J. J. Abrams

Ad Astra' is a visually beautiful film but the story is the interesting part.

— Lorne Balfe

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

— Goldie Hawn

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and…

— Sanaa Lathan

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and…

— Cheech Marin

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to…

— Charlotte Rampling

It does happen sometimes that you aren't able to understand whether you should go for a particular film or not, and you…

— Kartik Aaryan

Shoot The Piano Player' is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

— Sriram Raghavan

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

— Jason Reitman

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

— Grant Heslov

There will be hits and misses; you can't take it to heart. Of course, you feel bad when something doesn't do as…

— Vaani Kapoor

One of the things I thought coming into the franchise, what I thought was a unique gift: you hear so much of…

— Matt Reeves

There's always room. That's what the directors usually want. They want the performer to bring themselves and give what they have to…

— Michael Rooker

I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit…

— Dakota Fanning

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what…

— Jude Law

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any…

— Archie Panjabi

You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of…

— Errol Morris

I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an…

— Joel Surnow

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La…

— Alexandre Desplat

You give me that kind of feeling people write movies about.

— Anonymous

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

— Kristen Stewart

Directing is a way of looking at something and then communicating it.

— Elaine May

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

— Anonymous

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

— Mike Leigh

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

— Orson Welles

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

— Mary Schmich

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

— Quentin Tarantino

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

I make commercial films only. I don't make small, boring films.

— Farah Khan

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I am really easy to scare, and I dont enjoy watching spooky films.

— Kate Ashfield

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

— Ryan Phillippe

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

— Val Guest

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

— Hrithik Roshan

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

— Ang Lee