Film Quotes · Page 277

I'm not interested in big-budget films, I'm interested in something a little more personal.

— Gareth Evans

If a movie is successful, they come out with copies.

— Joe Don Baker

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

— Lewis Baltz

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

— Clint Eastwood

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

— Shahrukh Khan

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

— Allan Sekula

You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.

— Ken Loach

The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.

— Shruti Haasan

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And…

— Jonathan Harris

It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's…

— Andrew Bujalski

We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and…

— Tilda Swinton

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

— Angelina Jolie

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity…

— Jamie Bell

The preseason's all about getting good film out there, making the most of the opportunities that you get.

— Taysom Hill

If I love the script and have a good rapport with the director, then first-time director can also be very special.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

MYOB - mind your own body. It's important because I don't happen to have the kind of body that we usually see…

— Gabourey Sidibe

I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad…

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you…

— Alden Ehrenreich

'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... even if that…

— Charlyne Yi

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that…

— John Sayles

Going from a short to a feature is like going from crawling to flying. It's a big jump, really. Everything triples -…

— Aurora Guerrero

If you're going to make a film about rage in 2018, 2017... If you're going to make a film about revenge and…

— Hari Nef

I love films that don't end when they end, that go on in your head a couple of days later.

— Rodrigo Cortes

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

— Manuel Puig

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

— Nicolas Roeg

I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.

— James Marsh

Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.

— Atul Kulkarni

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

— Jackie Chan

The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.

— Alexandre Desplat

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

— Michael Glawogger

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

— Mike Epps

The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

— Martin Scorsese

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

— Walter Salles

I feel all Indians just love going to the cinema halls.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

All films that I have done, this legacy, is a like a dream come true for me.

— Sridevi

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

— Hildegard Knef