As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
“If life is a movie most people would consider themselves the star of their own feature. Guys might imagine they're living some… — Tatsuya Ishida Copy Share Image
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
[Directing first film:] I was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native… — Jay Ryan Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular… — Amy Pascal Copy Share Image
It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what… — Anthony Anderson Copy Share Image
More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's also why it's personal. If you care to look,… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul Copy Share Image
All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money.… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
I just want to do everything. As broad as that seems, it's kind of the plan. There are so many different genres… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and… — Morten Tyldum Copy Share Image
I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
I had a real comfort with being on a set and in particular working with special effects and because of that background,… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
A few weeks ago I went to a screening of 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' at Utopia. I'm not a very… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But… — Shraddha Kapoor Copy Share Image
If I can still be successful making films and no-one will ever know me, then that would be great. Because we (actors)… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no… — Delroy Lindo Copy Share Image
'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it's true for… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid I adored Katharine Hepburn, especially when she played Jo, the ballsy sister in Little Women. All the… — Ray Hagen Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've… — Stephen Frears Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong. I don't mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make Young and Beautiful as very dramatic movie . In a certain way, I wanted to do a… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
I think so much of a director's job is just to convince you that what you're doing is worthwhile. "Yes, this does… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
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