Film Quotes · Page 288

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

— Jodie Foster

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

— Ewan McGregor

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

— Eddie Redmayne

Meryl Streep's really smart, and she's a film animal, and she knows that.

— James Lapine

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

— Jason Mewes

Film stars and players can be sources of entertainment but never ideals.

— Rajnath Singh

My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

— Ranbir Kapoor

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

— Nargis Fakhri

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

— Todd Haynes

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions…

— Joshua Leonard

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the…

— Andy Grundberg

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break…

— Peter Menzel

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

— Mickey Rooney

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the…

— Gene Wilder

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but…

— Wes Anderson

I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a…

— Troy Donahue

[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the…

— Martin Scorsese

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and…

— Orson Welles

Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than…

— Thomas Ian Griffith

In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were…

— Jason Blum

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've…

— Hugh Grant

You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just…

— Josh Hartnett

I think in the '80s, when I started making films, we were all suspicious of these technologies. We were all convinced they…

— Atom Egoyan

“Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors…

— Daniel Handler

I try to make movies that I love and that I'm passionate about and that I'm proud of.

— Gregg Araki

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

— Bill Condon

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

— Abel Ferrara

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

— Terry Zwigoff

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

— Noomi Rapace

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

— Michael Haneke

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

— Debbie Reynolds

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

— Kay Kay Menon

Movies will finally reflect the world we live in, not some weird dinosaur reality.

— Reese Witherspoon

Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.

— James L. Brooks

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

— Alissa Quart

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

— Craig Mazin

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

— Stanley Kubrick

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

— Shweta Tripathi

“I want to direct a movie about a wrist motion, a flick.”

— Jarod Kintz

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

— Alfred Hitchcock