Film Quotes · Page 410

As I watched more and more film, I could see how vulnerable players are and how careless they are with carrying the…

— T. J. Watt

I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from…

— Shahrukh Khan

I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror…

— Shailene Woodley

I'm really thankful to god that I'm getting films and the kind of roles I would want to take up.

— Bhumika Chawla

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

— Gary Numan

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

— Orson Welles

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security…

— Forest Whitaker

I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain…

— Rachel Kushner

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're…

— Ryan Phillippe

I had the best teacher in the business. Kevin Costner was my teacher. I was acting opposite him and he was directing…

— Olivia Williams

I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was…

— Dan Mazer

Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything…

— Matt Bomer

I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I…

— Rainn Wilson

Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh…

— Amma Asante

I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance…

— Pooja Hegde

I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for…

— Jeri Ryan

[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain]…

— Steven Knight

I am open to keep on discovering new interesting projects, and little by little I have been coming across very beautiful projects…

— Alfonso Herrera

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy…

— John Lasseter

The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise…

— Vincent Paronnaud

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that…

— Lou Doillon

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

— Ed Harris

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

— Jennifer Aniston

Change is hard. A lot of times, at the end of films, even if they're amazing, I look back, and I'm like,…

— Jessica Rothe

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

— Jim Broadbent

'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical,…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

— Vincente Minnelli

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

— Sydney Pollack

I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.

— Katrina Kaif

The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me…

— Dwayne Johnson

It's just always wonderful to have a director who encourages you so much to focus on the present.

— Charlie Plummer

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.

— Nelly Ben Hayoun

British audiences are toughest on British films. So often, a British film is the last thing they want to see. If you…

— Simon Beaufoy

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've…

— Scott Mechlowicz

I never maligned the sanctity of cinema in my career. I always selected themes and made films with the fervent hope that…

— Balachandra Menon

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that…

— Lee Daniels

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

— Nicolas Winding Refn