Film Quotes · Page 187

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

— Barbara Broccoli

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

— Neil Jordan

To become a hero is simple but to direct a film is far more challenging work.

— Jeetendra

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

— Holt McCallany

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

— Christina Hendricks

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

— Mark Duplass

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

— Mark Harmon

Failure of a film doesn't diminish my love for acting.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is…

— Paul Robeson

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

— Eddie Redmayne

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

— Leslie Caron

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

— Megan Fox

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

— Dermot Mulroney

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a…

— Mark Rydell

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little…

— Kerry Washington

Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields.

— Lionel Shriver

Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love.…

— Warren Farrell

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong.…

— Katie Aselton

I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more…

— Beau Willimon

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl…

— Isabella Rossellini

Certain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that…

— Ben Katchor

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell…

— Roger Ebert

The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice…

— Paul Haggis

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

— Casey Affleck

“When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming.”

— Jean Cocteau

I'll stay with movies as long as they keep me in Hollywood.

— Cyd Charisse

I don't want to do films where I'm just there with nothing much to do.

— Pankaj Kapur

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

— Steven Soderbergh

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

— Sydney Pollack

Dialogues and emotion based movies don't always work.

— Vignesh Shivan

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

— Amber Heard

I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

— Hansika Motwani

For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

— Jon Hopkins

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

— Anna Chlumsky

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

— Boots Riley

Honestly, I feel the films choose me rather than I go after them!

— Andrea Jeremiah

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

— Huey Lewis

'Dierdre And Laney Rob A Train' is sort of an underdog movie.

— Ashleigh Murray

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

— Martin Scorsese