Film Quotes · Page 291

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

— Bobby Kotick

The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.

— Crispian Mills

I always want to work with a good director who's backed by excellent producers.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.

— Tisca Chopra

Every time you make a film you want to put something out there and that's important to me.

— Zoya Akhtar

Just because good films don't work does not mean we should stop making them.

— Paresh Rawal

I want to become a Hollywood film star. I genuinely would love to be in some movies.

— James Arthur

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

— Michael Snow

I'm going to eventually shoot my own special, because you have to own your own content. My Turn (2003), that's never been…

— Jay Mohr

Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want…

— Jasmila Zbanic

Many number of times I say no when a producer or a director asks me to do a cop's role, unless the…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

— Nick Nolte

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to…

— Emma Donoghue

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single…

— Matt Damon

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much,…

— Stephen Chbosky

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping…

— Jodie Foster

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be…

— Gary Numan

Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps…

— Taraji P. Henson

Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it…

— Shane Carruth

I don't refer to myself as a sculptor, but I use the word "visual artist." I prefer that, because that leaves the…

— Michael C. McMillen

When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was…

— Zaytoven

Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of…

— Tom Jones

I started with the fantasy film, 'Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne.' It was a film to be seen to be believed. It was…

— Tinnu Anand

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie

— Robin Tunney

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

— Robin Tunney

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

— Bong Joon-ho

I was the first Indian actor to do a film with Jackie Chan.

— Mallika Sherawat

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.

— Yash Chopra

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

— Denis Leary

You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.

— Naomi Watts

You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

— Yami Gautam

I can't watch formulaic films and hence, won't write or make one such film.

— Arvind Swami

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

— Todd Phillips

We actors have lives beyond the film industry too!

— Zeenat Aman

Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

— Sergio Leone

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

— Werner Herzog

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

— Orson Welles

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

— Sydney Pollack

People saw 'Moonlight' because it was excellent.

— Billy Eichner