Film Quotes · Page 199

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

— Danai Gurira

To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

— Mark Frost

Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

— M. Night Shyamalan

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.

— Gillian Flynn

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

— Sergei Eisenstein

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

— Fahadh Faasil

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

— Sydney Pollack

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

— John Boyega

“Watching foreign films is the best form of movie for me. It is a book, with dramatic impact. My brain loves the…

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

When a family film is done well, there's a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to…

— Dwayne Johnson

I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something…

— Kiran Rao

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take…

— Lloyd Kaufman

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

— Frederick Wiseman

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's…

— Mel Gibson

There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the…

— Sidney Lumet

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that…

— Jonathan Glazer

Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the…

— Dee Rees

I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I…

— Joe Wright

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great…

— Channing Tatum

Lately, I've discovered the Hellenistic bronzes. I'd never really thought about them much, but then there was this marvelous exhibition - many…

— James Ivory

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it,…

— Dianna Agron

And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes…

— Quentin Tarantino

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I…

— Christopher Nolan

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. Those are…

— Tamsin Egerton

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

— Denzel Washington

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

— Parker Posey

When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.

— Glenn Ficarra

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

— Peter Jackson

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.

— Jonathan Levine

As a viewer, I will go and watch only commercial films.

— Tabu

'As The River Flows' is an important Assamese film with a message for everybody to ponder upon.

— Victor Banerjee

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

— Shaun Sipos

'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

— Oscar Isaac

If you are going to be dogged with doubts you shouldn't be making movies.

— Arbaaz Khan

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

— Jim Morrison

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

— Andrzej Wajda

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

— Hideo Kojima

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

— Ridley Scott

If your director knows what he wants on screen, it makes things easier.

— Sai Pallavi

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

— Melissa Joan Hart