But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school.… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film,… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
It took 12 years to put this film [Dream of Life] together, but it was not until toward the end of those… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid,… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
There's a lot that goes into development. Oftentimes people say, well, you have to play them in a game. And you do.… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
I like doing horror films. I think it's helped me as an actress because you have to run and scream and cry… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like… — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years,… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
To be honest, making films is so expensive and their shelf life is limited. On the web, content remains... you can watch… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The good thing about the studio is that, when the movie comes out, they will put their marketing and their money behind… — Jamie Linden Copy Share Image
We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
I think when you make something that is non-mainstream and people don't have automatic way of consuming, like you don't have a… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean,… — Adam Arkin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of directors nowadays come from the commercial world, which is about seduction, which has nothing to do with… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and… — Jessica McNamee Copy Share Image
A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge.… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit… — Wolfgang Petersen Copy Share Image
I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant.… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking is an ongoing self-reflection process. I kind of push everything to the edge. I feel very exposed and fragile… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
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