Film Quotes · Page 272

You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.

— Karthik Subbaraj

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

— Christopher Atkins

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

— Patricia Arquette

I've made one action movie. But nobody saw it, so I guess that doesn't count for most people.

— James Wan

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

— Peter Jackson

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

— Alejandro Amenabar

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

— Martin Scorsese

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

— James McAvoy

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and…

— Tom Hanks

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,…

— Alan J. Pakula

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head…

— George Lucas

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the…

— Brittany Murphy

I don't believe in doing 20 films a years and being on number one, number five or anything that kind.

— Soha Ali Khan

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

— Bill Forsyth

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

— Paul Schrader

If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like…

— Imogen Poots

If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to…

— Jia Zhangke

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I…

— Anonymous

A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with…

— Jacqueline Bisset

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5'…

— Jane Fonda

You can get really bored in this business [film], and I think that's one of the reasons why I've challenged myself so…

— Mike Epps

Whatever you do, whatever you come up with, whatever you decide on, you can go with it, and if the director or…

— IronE Singleton

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

— Renata Adler

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

— Sergio Leone

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

— Justin Chadwick

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

— David Fincher

I made some very forgettable films, but I liked them all when I was doing them.

— Roger Moore

I don't understand how people do so many films at the same time. For me, two films a year.

— Nana Patekar

Everyone wants their film to do well and I am no different from them.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

— Anonymous

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

— Robert Englund

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is watching all the Christmas movies still on the DVR.

— Anonymous

When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

— Matthew Lawrence

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

— Sasha Pivovarova

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

— Nicolas Roeg

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

— Ja Rule

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

— Peter Greenaway