Film Quotes · Page 230

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

— Taika Waititi

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

— Sydney Pollack

Dialogues and emotion based movies don't always work.

— Vignesh Shivan

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

— Steven Soderbergh

I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

— Hansika Motwani

For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

— Jon Hopkins

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

— Anna Chlumsky

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

— Amber Heard

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French,…

— Arnaud Desplechin

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the…

— Hal Linden

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

— Werner Herzog

The public should want to see a movie and it should entertain them. If it fails to do so, it is not…

— Joy Mathew

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

— Gary Gulman

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way,…

— Joel Edgerton

I'll be honest - I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be…

— Scott Adkins

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make…

— Alton Brown

I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when…

— Simon Boswell

You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage,…

— Jeremy Irons

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because…

— Farhan Akhtar

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's…

— Ciaran Hinds

If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film…

— William Monahan

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't…

— James Frain

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money,…

— Danny Elfman

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

— Boots Riley

Honestly, I feel the films choose me rather than I go after them!

— Andrea Jeremiah

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

— Mark Harmon

I'll stay with movies as long as they keep me in Hollywood.

— Cyd Charisse

Failure of a film doesn't diminish my love for acting.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

“When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming.”

— Jean Cocteau

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

— Casey Affleck

I don't want to do films where I'm just there with nothing much to do.

— Pankaj Kapur

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

— Neil Jordan

To become a hero is simple but to direct a film is far more challenging work.

— Jeetendra

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

— Christina Hendricks

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

— Holt McCallany

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

— Mark Duplass

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

— Rob Zombie

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

— Christopher Walken

There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.

— Lucy Fisher