Film Quotes · Page 438

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy…

— Edward Norton

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

— Michael Keaton

I wanted to do something in film. I wanted to make my own movies. Something clicked in my brain, like, 'Oh, I…

— Finn Wolfhard

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

— Logan Lerman

Whenever I leave home to film, my wife Marina gets terrified that I'm going to come back having bought a tiny plot…

— Ben Fogle

A film only works when its content works. The visuals can be breathtaking, but if the content is not good, it won't…

— Bobby Deol

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her…

— Sergio Leone

What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be…

— Quentin Tarantino

I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney.…

— John Lasseter

I think we are affected so much by mythical stories and biblical stories, our society being based on the Bible - at…

— Dolph Lundgren

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by…

— Steven Spielberg

I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and…

— Jason Silva

I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I'll say that I wouldn't be…

— Jason Blum

We didn't set out to make some polemic about life in the digital age, I can only react emotionally to story ideas.…

— Jonathan Mostow

There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film,…

— Marshall Brickman

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just…

— Zak Orth

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

— John Cassavetes

I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will…

— David Lowery

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

— Alice Lowe

I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works…

— Lauren Bacall

I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

I like to consider myself an all-rounder, and I'm not trying to be King of the Scene or anything. I'd like to…

— Deadmau5

Paradesi' remains close to my heart because Amina ages in the course of the film and I got to essay her life…

— Shweta Menon

I want to do some bigger films, so long as there's some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind…

— Paul Dano

It's definitely good to have a hit from time to time, though not too often. If you have a few hits in…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

For 'Rakht Charitra,' I had to gain and lose weight. I simultaneously shot the film in three languages - Telugu, Tamil, and…

— Vivek Oberoi

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy…

— Orson Welles

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

— Tom Felton

For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it…

— Greta Gerwig

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on,…

— Gabriel Byrne

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a…

— Gene Siskel

I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do…

— Ruth Bradley

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held…

— Emma Donoghue

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the…

— Patty Jenkins

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little…

— Aaron Siskind

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to…

— Henry Fonda

'Badlapur' was my first film that did well, commercially. People have also watched the other films that I have made, but they…

— Sriram Raghavan

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

— Antoine Fuqua

Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick…

— Robert Orben

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

— Larry Wilmore