Film Quotes · Page 307

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.

— Hayley Kiyoko

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese…

— Alexandre Desplat

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around…

— Alessandro Nivola

I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done,…

— RZA

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is…

— Annie Baker

I've always wanted to be an actor who connects with families because once they come to watch your film in the theatres,…

— Kartik Aaryan

I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little…

— Alessandra Mussolini

But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a…

— Colin Firth

I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country…

— Sinclair Lewis

We named the film 'Action Jackson' because our hero, Ajay Devgn, is known as 'AJ,' and we thought it would be a…

— Prabhu Deva

I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things…

— Sam Riley

Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as…

— Vidya Balan

There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents,…

— Lucy Walker

I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there…

— Kirsten Dunst

The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and…

— Harrison Ford

That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion…

— Alexandra Roach

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in…

— Ira Sachs

If I hear that a film of mine is going to be shown on a big screen somewhere and I haven't seen…

— James Ivory

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you…

— Louise Fletcher

'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a…

— David Hepworth

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without…

— Quentin Tarantino

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything…

— Graham King

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always…

— Louis Garrel

Acting is closed and 'Dabanng' will be my last film as an actor in Bollywood. I don't know, it does not excite…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned…

— Louis Zamperini

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

— Edward Burns

You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel…

— Winona Ryder

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to…

— Tilda Swinton

I did do a film that I refer to as 'The Unpronounceable' by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I…

— Johnny Depp

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.

— Ben Miller

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

— Lina Wertmuller

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have…

— Tommy Lee Jones

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but…

— Li Bingbing

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Since 'Heroes' started, I've probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those,…

— Sendhil Ramamurthy

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing…

— John C. Reilly

I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true…

— Todd Haynes

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being…

— Joss Whedon