Film Quotes · Page 357

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

— Mary-Louise Parker

I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like…

— Liana Liberato

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

— Miranda Cosgrove

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.…

— Richard Ray Perez

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film,…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see…

— John Slattery

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being…

— Saoirse Ronan

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio…

— Zac Goldsmith

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe…

— Ridley Scott

There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because…

— Raymond Pettibon

Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike,…

— Cary Fukunaga

It's a different thing with cable TV. You don't have to have your characters be lovely again by the end of the…

— Lizzy Caplan

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of…

— Lester Persky

I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of bullying - it's very big,…

— Alan Moore

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite…

— Miranda Richardson

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Even if I'm in a movie theatre, I'll touch up an hour into the film because I know I could be a…

— Jeffree Star

People should be good, established people; the filmmaking and acting experience should be heartening. So I chose films where I would get…

— Tabu

I love 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior,' in particular - those movies are very close to my soul, you know what…

— Jim Root

When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even…

— Werner Herzog

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation,…

— Andrew Sarris

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are…

— Roger Michell

Kids in different countries know my movies by heart because they've seen them so many times. And wonderful returns never stop.

— Michel Ocelot

Cinema will not go anywhere. We want to watch movies in theaters. Cinema and digital will coexist.

— Shoojit Sircar

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which…

— Ennio Morricone

It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't…

— Simon Pegg

I don't like it when a filmmaker has an agenda and I don't know it. When the contract is not clear, that's…

— Davis Guggenheim

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

— Janet Jackson

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I…

— Noah Baumbach

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the…

— Ice Cube

I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't…

— Adam McKay

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so -…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole…

— Juliet Landau

I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut,…

— Dexter Fletcher

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are…

— David Ayer

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally...…

— Leonard Nimoy

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but…

— David Morse

If a Canadian novel hasn't been a box-office success, say, 'The Republic of Love,' then producers are reluctant to try again.

— Kari Skogland