Films Quotes · Page 68

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

“Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima”

— Alfred Hitchcock

I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was…

— Christopher Lee

I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

— Sam Elliott

Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see…

— Richard LaGravenese

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

— Neil Jordan

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to…

— Twyla Tharp

For me, it is not about being a part of a hit or a flop. Films are about friends, learning, and experiences.…

— Nithya Menen

As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme…

— Tony Burgess

With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good…

— Drew Goddard

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio,…

— Norman Jewison

I remember a few years ago, two of my films - Gulzar Saab's 'Hu tu tu' and Shakeel Noorani's 'Bade Dilwala' -…

— Suniel Shetty

I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan.…

— Ronit Roy

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted…

— Robert Osborne

I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films…

— Tatiana Maslany

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

— Martin Scorsese

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

— Pedro Almodovar

It's never been my goal to do 'big' films because a big film in itself is not very interesting to me.

— Greig Fraser

Quite often you get a lot of films with lots of story but no characterisation.

— Lynne Ramsay

My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'…

— Maria Valverde

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to…

— Steve McQueen

I have always wanted to do Gujarati films but I wasn't offered any good films.

— Supriya Pathak

One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.

— Kara Hayward

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

— Mira Nair

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

— Om Puri

It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.

— Luke Evans

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained…

— Bahman Ghobadi

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

— Liev Schreiber

My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

— Barry Jenkins

Though films need retakes, I have always hated them because they tend to become mechanical.

— Waheeda Rehman

My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.

— Mahesh Babu

Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

— Josephine Decker

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

— Alexandra Cassavetes

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

— Joshua Leonard

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

— Alan Parker

If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about…

— Abhijit Banerjee

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

— George Stevens

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the…

— Andy Garcia