Film Quotes · Page 227

'Boss' is a big scale entertainer... It is my first film of this kind.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

It takes forever to make a film. It's a gargantuan thing of untold effort.

— Francesca Gregorini

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

— Madonna Ciccone

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

— Marilyn Manson

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

— Tony Gilroy

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

— Darren Aronofsky

I go with the flow of the film. I feel if it's the demand of the script, then you should do it.

— Kriti Sanon

I take up films only if I agree with the ultimate message the film conveys.

— Shabana Azmi

You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.

— Cary Fukunaga

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure…

— Andre Braugher

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and…

— James Cameron

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to…

— Melvin Van Peebles

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around…

— Ira Sachs

I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else…

— Darren Lynn Bousman

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you…

— Ben Stiller

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there…

— Bill Gates

The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Sixty-five days principle photography, five-day weeks, which is the only way I'll work. With my cinematographer Russell Boyd, we take as much…

— Peter Weir

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well…

— Frank Oz

I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next…

— Ava DuVernay

When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet.…

— Dustin Lance Black

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find…

— Jon Voight

My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things…

— Richard Rossi

I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.

— Rakul Preet Singh

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

— Robert MacNeil

I think every director has a different methodology.

— Cillian Murphy

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

— Neill Blomkamp

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

— Tate Taylor

'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.

— Charlie Rowe

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

— Lea Thompson

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

— Seth MacFarlane

I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

— Taylor Sheridan

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

— Liev Schreiber

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

— Alex Gibney

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

— Will Friedle

I think, for an artiste, it's important to be aware of world cinema.

— Roop Durgapal

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

— Rod Lurie

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

— Om Puri

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

— Divya Dutta