Film Quotes · Page 313

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to…

— Daniel Clowes

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off…

— Anonymous

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for…

— Chris Columbus

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film…

— Emily Browning

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14…

— Al Pacino

I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to…

— Max Minghella

As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all…

— Declan Lowney

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then…

— Christopher Owens

I will say that is a quality I love about great directors, which is the ability to give you one word that…

— Michelle Monaghan

Director Lee Chang-dong's 1997 noir 'Green Fish.' I was attending middle school when I first watched the piece. And although I could…

— Lee Je-hoon

I think that's what's happened with a lot of people in films these days: they're so enamored with the process, whether it's…

— Daniel Myrick

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week.…

— Kapil Sharma

Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on…

— Eric Fellner

'Callister' is feature-length, and it's one of the coolest things I've ever been asked to be a part of. It's poignant and…

— Cristin Milioti

I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor.…

— Pam Grier

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw…

— Henry Louis Gates

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me,…

— Rachel Morrison

Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a…

— Barry Levinson

It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten…

— Alvin Lee

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

— Steve Martin

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

— Benjamin Bratt

'Padosan' is a three-dimensional film. The chemistry between Saira Banu, Sunil Dutt and Mehmood is too good.

— Rajpal Yadav

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with…

— Errol Morris

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

— James Wolk

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much…

— Clint Eastwood

Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews.…

— Emmanuel Benbihy

I tend to detach myself from movies once I'm done shooting them, because after that, it's in the hands of God. And…

— Shruti Haasan

I think every film is like a team game, especially for me. I have always got films which have a strong cast.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on…

— Guy Pearce

There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top.…

— Steven Shainberg

Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to…

— Alessandro Nivola

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

— Jean-Luc Godard

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of…

— Martin Scorsese

Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.

— Ranvir Shorey

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting.…

— Brit Marling

When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.

— Chris Rock

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

— Jonah Hill

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

— John Cusack

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking.…

— Mads Mikkelsen