Film Quotes · Page 554

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to…

— Steve Antin

At a certain point, some things in your life shouldn't be used to sell movies. Hey, I have two sphincters! See my…

— Ben Affleck

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

— Tom Hooper

I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and…

— Woody Allen

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

— Yami Gautam

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to…

— Karen O

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they…

— John Lasseter

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me…

— Rob Marshall

First of all, 'Sarkar' is not an underworld film. It's about a man at the head of a feudal set-up in the…

— Ram Gopal Varma

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if…

— Alex Winter

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the…

— Thomas Perry

Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The most thankless job in our film industry is that of lyricists. Next in the list are writers. These two don't get…

— Ankit Tiwari

It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because…

— Matt Reeves

For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and…

— Martin Scorsese

I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which…

— Paul Reubens

'The Sign of Four' is a brilliant story. It's already been made into a film in the U.K., which I haven't seen.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you…

— Misha Collins

My advice for anyone wanting to direct is that nobody is going to hand you an opportunity. You have to create your…

— Marielle Heller

When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

— Edgar Wright

Making a film requires an alignment of God! On top of that if you are doing a period film, it is even…

— Pooja Batra

You don't set out making a film that will rake in 100 crores; you just want to make a good film.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

— Adrian Lyne

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot…

— Lee Hazlewood

'Aashiqui' became a cult hit film. It was my first film which gave me not just recognition but stardom too, so I…

— Rahul Roy

Sometimes, I think it's important to be a filmmaker first and be able to talk about whatever you want to after that.

— Justin Lin

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if…

— Ian Shoales

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

— John Hurt

Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But,…

— Simon Pegg

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary…

— Martin Scorsese

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and…

— Ang Lee

All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

— R. Madhavan

It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do…

— Babette Mangolte

As a member of the audience, when you see someone from your country working in an international project, your curiosity about that…

— Huma Qureshi

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's…

— Elizabeth Reaser

I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what…

— Karan Johar

I get to do all these crazy things in the movies. I'm a pretty chilled out person, actually... a very mellow person.

— Kirsten Dunst

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not…

— Spike Lee

'Little Baby' is a beautiful film about father and daughter relationship which talks of generation gap.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

— Thomas Perry