Film Quotes · Page 276

I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

— Jena Malone

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.

— Cecilia Roth

Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.

— Roger Ebert

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

— William H. Macy

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

— Martha Plimpton

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

— Dermot Mulroney

I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

— Dwayne Johnson

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't…

— Sam Mendes

Before 'Pushpa,' he was called Arya but after the release of this film, he will be called the Icon Star Allu Arjun…

— Devi Sri Prasad

It would help a lot of directors if they tried a little bit of acting, so they can understand what the process…

— Adrian Dunbar

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film…

— Mia Wasikowska

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether…

— Benjamin Walker

When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out…

— Michael Giacchino

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but…

— Famke Janssen

We are moving into a phase where what was once alternative cinema is becoming mainstream. I like being in that space.

— Rana Daggubati

Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film…

— Morgan Freeman

I don't see myself as a movie maker only. When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up…

— Todd Haynes

I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such…

— DJ Qualls

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always…

— Carter Burwell

Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets…

— Signe Baumane

I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes…

— Agyness Deyn

There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something…

— Brie Larson

My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

— Adam Brown

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

— Elizabeth Olsen

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

— Nicolas Cage

There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films.

— Maria Bello

“I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.”

— Ken Gire

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

— Hal Holbrook

If I bother about the expectations how will I make a film?

— Shoojit Sircar

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.

— Bennett Miller

Once I finish shooting a film, I usually sit on it to see how we can make it better.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

— Steven Spielberg

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

— Mary Harron

I've now made enough movies that I understand that people love to put things in a box.

— Francis Lawrence

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

— Samuel Fuller

In my case I want my films to be fresh even after a decade of watching it.

— Vignesh Shivan

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.

— Rachel Morrison