Film Quotes · Page 197

Success of a film has got nothing to do with whether it's a remake or an original.

— Jeetendra

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

— Colleen Haskell

I don't think I can create films just for critics. It's just not me.

— Sajid Khan

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

— Mickey Rourke

A director in films is closer allied to the writer than anyone else.

— Van Heflin

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.

— Kirsten Dunst

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went…

— Spike Lee

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what…

— Karen Allen

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others…

— John Maus

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more…

— Alia Shawkat

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll…

— Takashi Miike

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach…

— Neil Jordan

I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of…

— William Monahan

The technology certainly changes. I think, in terms of making films, that's been the biggest change. But many things stay the same.…

— Howard Shore

I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands.…

— Ally Walker

While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam…

— Hassan Blasim

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you…

— Morten Tyldum

In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out.…

— Suzanne Collins

Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just…

— J.H. Wyman

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

— Ciaran Hinds

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

— Jane Campion

As long as a movie churns its own profit for their own budget it should be fine.

— Kabir Khan

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

— Randeep Hooda

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

— Lynne Ramsay

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

— Dario Argento

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

— Tommy Lee Jones

“Maybe there was a time when you could make films that mattered, but now?”

— Hayao Miyazaki

I don't know if Jared Leto or Leo [DiCaprio] would ever do Fuller House, but you never know.

— Jodi Sweetin

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.

— Esme Creed-Miles

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

— Pedro Almodovar

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

— Ian Somerhalder

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

— Ivan Tverdovsky

I wanted to belong to the films which were trying to say something.

— Deepti Naval

It's always the theme that defines the songs and background score of any film.

— Devi Sri Prasad