When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“What greater contrast of chiaroscuro is there than that between burning screen and darkened audience? Take any photograph of an intent audience,… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I have done six films with the Bhatt camp and I know that they are good at marketing, packaging the film and… — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm… — William Sadler Copy Share Image
The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British… — Philip French Copy Share Image
We don't set out to be polarizing. But just by the nature of what we've always done, it seems to have a… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I knew exactly what I wanted out of my actors - the film stars Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha in lead roles… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to… — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
It's a tremendous asset if you have a visual eye because you can make huge visual statements in a very theatrical way… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral… — David Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, and sometimes youre in the midst of other people making decisions and your people are making decisions and you dont want… — Elizabeth Mitchell Copy Share Image
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life… — Jean-Pierre Dardenne Copy Share Image
I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant ,and so is… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any one route to directing… Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want!… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
There's so much more freedom in film as far as subject matter and what can be said. And then, also, the process… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image