Film Quotes · Page 189

I can't act for peanuts. Years ago, I was offered a film but I refused point-blank.

— KK

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

— Nicolas Cage

“(Things I learned from Lorne Michaels) Producing is about discouraging creativity”

— Tina Fey

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

— Illeana Douglas

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

— Tom Hooper

I'd sue the bottom off my husband if he dared to put me in one of his films, and he knows that.

— Anita Dobson

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

— Saqib Saleem

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

— Peter Greenaway

I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in…

— Rajon Rondo

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

— Roger Corman

What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist.…

— James Newton Howard

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted…

— Gary Sherman

There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to…

— Frederick Lenz

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if…

— John Waters

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's…

— Isaiah Mustafa

If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a…

— Lloyd Kaufman

Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years…

— Bryan Singer

This as hard an R as we wrote in the beginning. It was fast. It was fast mainly because of De Luca.…

— Todd Farmer

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as…

— John Cusack

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to…

— Raul Garcia

The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office…

— Aamir Khan

I test the movies a lot, and if the audience says they love the movie, we know we're on the right track.…

— Judd Apatow

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine.…

— Christian Marclay

I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

— Kevin Spacey

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it." Roger Ebert”

— Roger Ebert

I am very happy with the films that I am getting.

— Amyra Dastur

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

— Dougray Scott

But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

— Corey Haim

I am glad I was in a position to select films that interested me.

— Shobana

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

— Morten Tyldum

Apne' was a good film and there was no film like this in the sports genre.

— Dharmendra

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.

— Topher Grace

I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

— Steven Sebring

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

— Dirk Benedict

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.

— Jean Rouch

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

— Holliday Grainger

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

— Allen Covert

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

— Ted Kotcheff