Film Quotes · Page 269

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

— Kurt Russell

I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.

— Sean Baker

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

— Swoosie Kurtz

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

— Thomas Jane

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

— Sean Connery

My directors are always more confident about me doing a role than I am.

— Mahira Khan

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

— Christopher McQuarrie

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't…

— Roger Ross Williams

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do…

— Charles Stross

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience…

— John Henrik Clarke

You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really…

— Ti West

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.

— Peter Jackson

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

— Matthew Lillard

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

— Malgorzata Szumowska

Cinema lends itself to the play between the surreal, the symbolic, the experiential, the nonsensical and the aesthetic. It's on this weird…

— RaMell Ross

Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my…

— Woody Allen

“Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film…

— David J. Schow

They still put you in a room with these people who apparently have no difference whether you're making a family driven show…

— Mila Kunis

Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in…

— Edwin Land

I have making a new film called Story of Your Life, directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner and…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Now, as when I made films that were too autobiographical, the problem is how to escape naturalism. If you tell a strictly…

— Philippe Garrel

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of…

— Kapil Sharma

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

— Alison Goldfrapp

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves' changed my very idea of cinema.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

A movie should be made keeping in mind they are not hurting any religious sentiments.

— Raza Murad

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

— Steven Soderbergh

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

— Chrissie Fit

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

— Diablo Cody

I didn't take all the films that were offered, just those with dignity.

— Katy Jurado

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

— Freeman Patterson

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

— Neil Jordan

All art cinema is not great; some of the films can put you to sleep.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

— Jeff Fahey

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

— Ralph Lauren

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

— Joshua Leonard

If the offers are good, I am open to do movies in any language.

— Riya Sen

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

— Kathryn Bigelow