Film Quotes · Page 317

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome…

— Hanan Kattan

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.

— Callie Khouri

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.

— Mani Ratnam

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no…

— Spike Lee

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the…

— Shekhar Kapur

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

— Hiro Murai

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

— Ayushmann Khurrana

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking…

— Charles Roven

It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person…

— Douglas Booth

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex…

— Jason Bateman

There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are…

— John Huston

I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and…

— Daniel Clowes

I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for…

— Ben Affleck

Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and…

— Andre Vltchek

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing…

— Alia Shawkat

My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches.…

— Jon Watts

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

— Stanley Tucci

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have…

— Vittorio De Sica

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way…

— Luke Evans

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age…

— Ashley Scott

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a…

— Susanne Bier

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And…

— Ang Lee

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

— Steven Spielberg

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Our job is to make films that are inherently global and can really stand up to the audience litmus test of, 'Is…

— Donna Langley

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

— Bryan Cranston

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

— Evangeline Lilly

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come…

— Ali MacGraw

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

— David Brooks

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I…

— Guy Ritchie

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one…

— Amber Sealey

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to…

— Steven Soderbergh

I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't…

— Jessica Alba

I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained…

— William Friedkin

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan…

— Laetitia Casta

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's…

— Naseeruddin Shah

'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction.

— Jim Sarbh

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I…

— Jim Carrey