I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
For my first Hollywood film, I really didn't want to be doing a film where I'm looking like a stooge with fake… — Nathan Phillips Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. — Dan Glickman Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid,… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school.… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film,… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
James Wan is somebody who doesn't have any problem coming in and directing somebody else's script, he'll be the director for hire… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
To be honest, neither 'Satta' nor 'Stumped' needed songs and music. But when we recorded a good soundtrack album, everyone suggested we… — Raveena Tandon Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
For me, I always had producers come to me with films, even if it was not like the Khans, but whatever I… — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole… — Ruba Nadda Copy Share Image
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance.… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English. — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't… — David Selby Copy Share Image
I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould. — Leander Paes Copy Share Image
I don't have any limitations that I only want to do serious films. I am trying to break that image but not… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I… — Elisabeth Rohm Copy Share Image
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The… — Charlie Barnett Copy Share Image
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image