Film Quotes · Page 203

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

— Jean-Luc Godard

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

— Nick Nolte

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

— Scott Mechlowicz

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

— Freddie Fox

“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”

— Brigid Pasulka

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

— Kenya Barris

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

— Paloma Faith

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

— Harry Shearer

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on…

— Anonymous

Life is a movie, and you're the director to decide whether people will laugh or cry when watching yours.

— Anonymous

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be…

— Guy Pearce

When a common man is discouraged to buy a movie ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire film industry. I think…

— Manoj Bajpayee

I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me.…

— Eva Mendes

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent…

— Chris Terrio

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't…

— Elisha Cuthbert

North-east films are still not on a national level. But 'Axone' is a mainstream film. I found the script very authentic and…

— Sayani Gupta

I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like,…

— Sarita Choudhury

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the…

— Steve Earle

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better.…

— Claudia Christian

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day.…

— Edgar Wright

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I…

— Edward Norton

Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly…

— Emma Donoghue

When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You…

— Woody Allen

I am thankful to all those who gave me opportunities in the film industry.

— S. Sreesanth

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

— Akshay Kumar

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

— Lee Van Cleef

I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.

— Sean Young

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

— Kevin Feige

In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.

— Rithy Panh

I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.

— Edgar Ramirez

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

— Richard King

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

— Peter Jackson

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

— Abel Ferrara

With one film after another becoming a hit, nervousness only grows.

— Nani

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

— Brad Anderson

I am enjoying every day of being in the film industry and have no regrets at all.

— Neha Dhupia

Whether the role or the film is big or small, doesn't matter to me. It has to excite me.

— Rajpal Yadav

I am always nervous before the release of any film.

— Richa Chadha