The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.' — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I want to get to a point where we can have guys like me in a film and I'm just there. Where… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today. — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever get tired of making films. I wish I could make so many that it would make me… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
When you film someone, you're constantly searching for meaning or representational moments, right? These moments are in dialogue with moments you've seen… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The film 'After Life' by Hirokazu Koreeda. I remember when I first saw it, just being totally blown away by every single… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
When you've written a script, if an actor has a question you're the writer as well as the director, so you have… — John Michael McDonagh Copy Share Image
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of… — John Landis Copy Share Image
Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting,… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I come from a place where getting a call to do a film is a big thing. I would work double hard… — Vijay Deverakonda Copy Share Image
What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next. — Alexa Vega Copy Share Image
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
I don't view the web as any other secondary medium to television or film - I just think it's another avenue. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think. — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
Whether it's Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire or 'West Side Story,' see it on the big screen. That's the way we should… — George Chakiris Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I've talked to a lot of directors who direct solo like most directors. And they're always like, 'Oh, man I wish I… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide… — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
My husband is very critical, but he's a film producer. So when he says he likes me in something I know he… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
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