Film Quotes · Page 544

I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find…

— Larry Mullen

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

— Tom Cruise

I was in the film industry just for 13 years and to remember me after 35 years is really an honour.

— Mumtaz

Most films don't have a budget for a background score, but it is the toughest job to do. We work like donkeys.…

— Amit Trivedi

Once I started 'Nagaram Nidrapotunna Vela' I had to finish it. I made a wrong decision. I knew the film would be…

— Jagapathi Babu

I was told by many well-wishers not to do the film because my role was just a cameo. But it's very important…

— Govinda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

— Agnes Varda

I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given…

— Todd Haynes

The Good Shepherd was such a daunting project that I had to think about it moment for moment, day by day. My…

— Robert De Niro

I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm…

— Alexander Payne

It was great. I got to hang out with him [Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins], and I kept a straight face for…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that…

— James Newton Howard

This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault…

— Peter Bradshaw

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more…

— Eva Green

Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to…

— Max Landis

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Meaningful cinema which lets me explore my talent to the fullest and with different roles is more important to me than just…

— Atul Kulkarni

I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went…

— Neil Jordan

In cinema, I would not really rate my costar and I would not pick a project because of the costar. I would…

— Zeenat Aman

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to…

— Christopher Nolan

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

— Patrice Leconte

Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas…

— Adam McKay

I used to have worries about my film releases and I used to pay money just to get them released.

— Jagapathi Babu

The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've…

— Russell Crowe

If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

— Phyllida Lloyd

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who…

— Robert De Niro

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory…

— Patrick Lussier

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

— Ridley Scott

There is a space for all sorts of films because the audience wants to watch all kinds of films at the end…

— Koel Mallick

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Initially, I used to say yes to any film without giving it a second thought, which I shouldn't have done.

— Aditya Pancholi

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

— Rachel Miner

The first film is very important, and one needs to choose the right kind of debut project. I also think the second…

— Kriti Sanon

Americans view film from their perspective like all of us do and our perspective don't necessarily need to match.

— Kabir Khan

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

— Denis Leary

I want to remind people that there is no soundtrack in 'Southland;' there is no scored music or soundtrack telling you what…

— Michael Cudlitz

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and…

— Matthew Lillard

When you only have $15 million, you have to talk about something interesting. You can't just cut to a helicopter exploding.

— Shane Black