Film Quotes · Page 512

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

— Patrice Leconte

I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn't want to do, having to make movies you didn't like.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of…

— Rick McCallum

If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not…

— Dede Gardner

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Nadunisi Naaigal' is new age Tamil cinema. I have tried to break the rules of regular cinema with this film.

— Gautham Menon

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see…

— Michael Moore

Public posturing notwithstanding, when trash becomes a hit no filmmaker worth his salt takes it seriously.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these…

— DJ Qualls

. . . Umm well all I can say is that Johnny Depp can sing and everyone is going to really pleased.…

— Laura Michelle Kelly

One of the earliest memories I have of feeling the power of film music was watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.…

— Geoff Zanelli

You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be…

— Bobby Farrelly

You can say something that can really help and actor and you can say something that can really get in the way…

— Josh Radnor

Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be 'so bad they were good'. They were not made…

— John Waters

Personally, it's not my thing, and I don't love it. But I have a soft spot for it now. Who knows? Maybe…

— David Krumholtz

Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories…

— Ronnie Screwvala

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's…

— LL Cool J

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that…

— David Ayer

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

— Yann Martel

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that…

— Peter Jackson

In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they…

— Samuel Barnett

Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'

— Jane Goldman

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be…

— Scott Adsit

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

— Gregory Nicotero

Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't…

— Corey Hawkins

There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best…

— Joseph Kosinski

I signed 'Lucknow Central' because it was a story I wanted to be part of. I still stand by the fact that…

— Diana Penty

Independent films are the ones with the great possibility of keeping you on your toes, challenging your craft and skills, and forcing…

— Manoj Bajpayee

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like…

— Charlize Theron

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that…

— Ajay Devgan

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality -…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad…

— Zoe Saldana

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little…

— Claude Chabrol

It feels good to be back in the Kannada film industry and I'm overwhelmed by the love of the people here.

— Meghana Raj

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create…

— Daniella Alonso

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars'…

— Ming-Na Wen

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar