I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me. — Bruce LaBruce Copy Share Image
You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut,… — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens. — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
The actor should understand the script and come prepared to play the role. At the same time, they should be flexible enough… — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
I spent five years after '3 Idiots' making my next film. I didn't see a single penny in those five years. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Vincent Gallo has put a curse on my colon and a hex on my prostate. He called me a 'fat pig' in… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from.… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them. — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of… — Kel Mitchell Copy Share Image
I take time with my films and I want to work on every script properly before I move on to something else. — Saqib Saleem Copy Share Image
I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to… — Penny Marshall Copy Share Image
I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut. — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five… — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself. — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film! — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
So many films are being shot on the DSLR, that they're all starting to look the same. There's a shallow depth of… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave… — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune… — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
I never get to think about myself when I do films. I started in advertising, so I always have to think about… — Jonas Akerlund Copy Share Image
I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to… — Nick Ferguson Copy Share Image
I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image