So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
The Tamil film '3' is a movie that I will always be proud of, irrespective of whether it did well at the… — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how… — David Zayas Copy Share Image
The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell. — Janusz Kaminski Copy Share Image
I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes… — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point. — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
Photography is a relative illusion and film is a literal illusion of speeding multiple images. It's something outside of our perception but… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Ask anyone who makes a full-length movie that's shown in the art world if they'd rather have a career as a film… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing you take from the stunt world is your understanding of the filmmaking process. For years, you've worked… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
Most films that I do, whether successful or not, just fade away. They have their moment in the sun, then they are… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I kind of joke with myself that you shouldn't be able to be a creative producer if you weren't a first AD.… — Bruce Cohen Copy Share Image
I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film,… — Geoff Stults Copy Share Image
Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't think I am the first actor whose film hasn't made money and I am not going to be the last.… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
“Any time a film scores a massive hit or gets uniform critical acclaim, it's a surprise. When a film does both, it's… — Jeffrey Katzenberg Copy Share Image
I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors,… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people… — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema -… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those… — Robert Gardner Copy Share Image
I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal… — Govinda Copy Share Image
