Film Quotes · Page 176

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

— Asghar Farhadi

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

— Gaspar Noe

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

— Nikita Dutta

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

— Alex Gibney

If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.

— Huma Qureshi

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

— Samantha Bee

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

— Roger Ebert

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you…

— John Cassavetes

Foreign distribution is a major aspect of financing films. If you're flooding an entire country with cam rips DVDs before the movie…

— Lexi Alexander

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in…

— Pauline Kael

There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I…

— Andrew Haigh

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film…

— Donnie Yen

Alex [Kendrick] and I started out the whole film-making journey as a desire to reach people for Christ and try to impact…

— Stephen Kendrick

Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and…

— Fede Alvarez

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material.…

— Jason Statham

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter…

— Ricky Gervais

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have…

— Glenn Ficarra

As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a…

— Genelia D'Souza

'Get Out,' of course, is the surprise hit movie that Peele wrote and directed about a black man named Chris, who discovers…

— Wesley Morris

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the…

— Charlotte Rae

I'm a director. My job is to think how I want to present it. If I want to say [lines] eight times…

— Tommy Wiseau

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I don't classify film people into old and new gen and so get along with all.

— Joy Mathew

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

— Joan Chen

As an actor, I can't be constantly worrying about the commercial returns of my film.

— Anushka Shetty

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

— Adam West

I struggled for 10 years before I made my first film.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless,

— Kimberly Elise

I was as devoted to the film industry, as I am to the Bharatiya Janta Party.

— Shatrughan Sinha

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

— Dito Montiel

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

— David Copperfield

I might have done around 100 films but still I have to be successful.

— Asrani

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

— Bennett Miller

I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.

— Poonam Dhillon

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

— Shelley Duvall

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

— Jodie Foster