Film Quotes · Page 223

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

— Illeana Douglas

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

— Saqib Saleem

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

Harold and Maude' is a film I just keep finding myself rewatching.

— Peter Hedges

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

Movie soundtracks…i love them and they often inpire me in everyday life..

— AXLL_SBLNS

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

— Idris Elba

I am going to do a film with Harish Shankar. He is the only director who has offered a multi-starrer to me.

— Nithiin

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film…

— Marcus Dunstan

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people…

— Balachandra Menon

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

— Bob Balaban

With 'Shallow Grave' people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats…

— Douglas Henshall

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something…

— Tom Ford

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry…

— Renny Harlin

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something…

— Jeff Daniels

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series…

— Tony Kushner

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the…

— Christian Bale

You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love.…

— Dave McKean

My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have…

— Dianna Agron

I was given an opportunity to do sports in college and get a degree because of it. I ran track for the…

— Trevante Rhodes

We really throw ourselves into our work and the details from your life show up from time to time in the finished…

— Nathan Greno

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think…

— Rebecca Hall

What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and…

— Justin Simien

I want people to think that if I'm in a film, then that film definitely has good content.

— Amrita Rao

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

— Emma Donoghue

Could someone like me become a film star? I don't see why not.

— Adam Pearson

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

— Tom Wilkinson

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

— Oren Peli

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

— George Stevens

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

— Maika Monroe

My perception and my way of working change with each film.

— Sanya Malhotra

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

— Nicholas Jarecki

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

— Tippi Hedren

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

— Joseph Bologna

I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

— Paul Dano

“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”

— Slavoj Žižek

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

— Jerry Reed

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

— Hayao Miyazaki