Film Quotes · Page 360

A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself…

— Logan Lerman

I have seen some films which were bad or trashy been given four stars. From that day on, I don't believe in…

— Nana Patekar

Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line…

— Gale Anne Hurd

You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just…

— Shane Meadows

I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I…

— Linda Blair

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance…

— Judi Dench

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not…

— Michael Haneke

When Shah Rukh's film can make it to the theatres for Diwali, why can't my film release on the same day?

— Hema Malini

In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of…

— James Kelman

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to…

— Ethan Hawke

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and…

— Federico Fellini

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because…

— Maggie Smith

I suppose when any movie dealing with politics is released, there is a knee-jerk assumption that it is propelled by a liberal…

— Rod Lurie

If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning…

— Mike Leigh

For the theatrical experience to survive, spectacle films need to expand their definition of what they can be. They need to be…

— James Gunn

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique…

— Ginger Rogers

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would…

— Roselyn Sanchez

The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.

— Rithy Panh

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

— Bruce Beresford

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I…

— Darren Aronofsky

Back in the day, you could have a crap gig, and nobody would film you. Now, everybody's got an iPhone - you…

— Sam Fender

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success…

— Emma Roberts

In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

— Vincent Cassel

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call…

— Guillermo del Toro

I realized: it's O.K. that 'Babe' is one of my favorite movies, because, structurally, it's actually kind of a brilliant movie! These…

— Ayo Edebiri

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the…

— Ira Sachs

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always…

— Miley Cyrus

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready…

— Joe Morton

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh…

— Anthony Hopkins

Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to…

— David Edelstein

Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage…

— Christopher Guest

Maybe we can have an all-female Marvel film. We've been talking about it. It's only a matter of time.

— Letitia Wright

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter…

— Steven Spielberg

My uniform [in Star Wars] was cool. Not much else I can think of at the moment. You know, you don't know…

— John Ratzenberger

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my…

— Miranda Otto

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

— Hugo Weaving

When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their…

— Jeff Giles

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

— Makoto Shinkai