Film Quotes · Page 265

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

— Jenifer Lewis

Bringing an Oscar is like bringing an Olympics medal for the film fraternity.

— Jackky Bhagnani

I made it for myself - it was a film I wanted to see.

— Donna Deitch

When I had signed my first film, I had not even told my family about it.

— Chunky Pandey

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

— Ralph Fiennes

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.

— Goldlink

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

— George Packer

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

— Noah Baumbach

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

— John Travolta

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

— Audrey Tautou

When I was making short films for the TV show 'Naalaya Iyakunar,' I wasn't just competing but making films that I could…

— Karthik Subbaraj

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

— Will Smith

Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to…

— Jonathan Rosenbaum

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

— Griffin Dunne

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And…

— Tim Matheson

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is…

— Susan Minot

He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like…

— Kim Edwards

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s…

— Tom Stoppard

Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extremely loyal as a people, and I think Hollywood…

— Aimee Garcia

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope…

— Galen Rowell

Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he…

— Rob Lowe

Actors usually feel skeptical about double hero films because one character might overshadow the other, but the late scriptwriter K. Subash has…

— Karthi

I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some…

— Whit Stillman

Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.

— Raoul Peck

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

— Noah Hathaway

Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.

— James McAvoy

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.

— Andie MacDowell

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

— Jean Renoir

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

— Laurel Nakadate

With every film, my confidence gets boosted; I feel motivated.

— Vicky Kaushal

My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now.

— Dawn Richard

I loved working with Mickey Rourke. He's a wonderful kind of crazy.

— Joseph Morgan

I have seen both versions of 'The Italian Job' and loved both of them.

— Bobby Deol

'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

— Edgar Wright

Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.

— Claire Danes

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

— Tavi Gevinson

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

— Ellen Page

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

— Anubhav Sinha