Film Quotes · Page 250

'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.

— Christopher Lee

I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.

— George A. Romero

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

— William Beckett

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

— Dougray Scott

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

— Barun Sobti

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

— Steven Spielberg

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

— Daisy Ridley

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

— Dan Fogler

“Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a…

— Josh Lucas

Any good film you see gives you enough motivation and adrenaline rush to produce good content, while a bad film can get…

— Mani Ratnam

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80…

— Howard Shore

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much…

— Duncan Jones

My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a…

— Naomi Watts

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

— Vaani Kapoor

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did…

— Ray Liotta

You don't ask if an aircraft is being flown by a man or a woman - if it flies, it means it's…

— Shriya Saran

There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow…

— J. J. Abrams

Sculpture, for me, provides that environmental discipline where you actually move in and around it. And if you have a good collaboration…

— Keith Sonnier

They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After…

— Kevin Bacon

I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my…

— Duncan Roy

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and…

— Kevin Alejandro

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the…

— Howard Shore

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

— Method Man

My momma always said, Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

— Anonymous

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

— Marcel Carne

When my first film flopped, I got damn depressed.

— Shruti Haasan

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

— Wong Kar-wai

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

— Stephen Moyer

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

— Kelly Lynch

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

— Eli Roth

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

— Raza Jaffrey

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

— Jean-Luc Godard

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

That ShamWow! commercial was really low budget. That cost us like $20,000 to make.

— Vince Offer

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

— Rob Morrow

I am a teetotaler but I have to say that the film business is intoxicating.

— Bhushan Kumar