Film Quotes · Page 184

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

— Paresh Rawal

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

— Kevin Spacey

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

— Frank Ocean

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

— James Cameron

I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.

— Rakul Preet Singh

I think every director has a different methodology.

— Cillian Murphy

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

— Robert MacNeil

'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.

— Charlie Rowe

In fact my first film ran for about 400 days. It all depends on hype, marketing and publicity, which are actually more…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like…

— Jeff Bridges

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

— Michel Ocelot

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I…

— Paul Auster

Creating a film's background score will help me be completely involved in the project because I will be composing more than just…

— Tanishk Bagchi

I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up…

— Yvonne Strahovski

Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league,…

— Adam Thielen

I feel that I don't know anything, I don't know how to act, but I can surrender myself to a director I…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

TV has become long-form now. A season can be like a 13-hour film, separated into episodes, so you can analyse a character…

— Ashley Zukerman

The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts…

— Steve Gleason

In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it…

— Finn Wittrock

I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it's not like I'm having to…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of…

— Boti Bliss

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I…

— Barbara Kopple

There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this…

— Brian Cox

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

— Tate Taylor

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

— Neill Blomkamp

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

— Lea Thompson

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

— Seth MacFarlane

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

— Madonna Ciccone

It takes forever to make a film. It's a gargantuan thing of untold effort.

— Francesca Gregorini

'Boss' is a big scale entertainer... It is my first film of this kind.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

— Tony Gilroy

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

— Marilyn Manson

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

— Darren Aronofsky

I go with the flow of the film. I feel if it's the demand of the script, then you should do it.

— Kriti Sanon

I take up films only if I agree with the ultimate message the film conveys.

— Shabana Azmi

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

— Alan Rickman

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

— Akira Kurosawa

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

— Ridley Scott

I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.

— Kelly Asbury