Film Quotes · Page 194

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.

— Lucy Dacus

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

— Joel Kinnaman

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

— Christina Ricci

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

— Lauren Greenfield

Doing films is not fun or glamorous as it seems.

— Amala Akkineni

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

— Walter Salles

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

— Pauline Kael

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

— Jim Jarmusch

One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look…

— Greta Gerwig

In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for…

— Ram Charan

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

— Orlando Bloom

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.

— Johann Johannsson

I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.

— Lexi Alexander

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

— Karishma Tanna

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with…

— Anne Dudley

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like…

— John Lasseter

A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you…

— Fede Alvarez

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and…

— Steve McQueen

There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast,…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time…

— Jason Reitman

When we talk about corruption, there's corruption on both sides of the border. That's what I think is interesting. I'm from Mexico,…

— Demian Bichir

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word…

— Phil LaMarr

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

— Robert Redford

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

— Mary Schmich

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

— F. Gary Gray

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

— Orlando Bloom

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

— David Fincher

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

— Lane Garrison

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

— David Lynch

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

— Sara Ramirez

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

— Stellan Skarsgard

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

— James Purefoy

I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.

— Martin Landau

I don't think I have a definitive film. Such a thing is not possible for me.

— Jesus Franco

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'

— Cameron Monaghan

Whatever they are showing in the film 'Manikarnika,' I feel I was like that.

— Jaya Prada

I will only do a Bollywood film if I am offered the main lead role.

— Priyamani

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

— Katherine Dunn