Film Quotes · Page 104

To me, a good film is one that can keep me engaged for two hours.

— Taapsee Pannu

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven

Movies are so weird. I don't believe anything until it's already done.

— Rex Smith

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

— Ellen Burstyn

I want to interact creatively with the directors I work with - it's a thrilling way to work.

— Dervla Kirwan

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet.

— George A. Romero

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

— Ellen Burstyn

The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.

— Charlton Heston

James Wan is somebody who doesn't have any problem coming in and directing somebody else's script, he'll be the director for hire…

— Leigh Whannell

As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.

— Eckhart Tolle

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film…

— Lloyd Kaufman

I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing…

— Bruno Zheng Wu

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and…

— John Waters

For my first Hollywood film, I really didn't want to be doing a film where I'm looking like a stooge with fake…

— Nathan Phillips

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

— Dan Glickman

I bring excitement on the sets. I'm an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I'm not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I…

— Shahrukh Khan

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes,…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not…

— Shahid Kapoor

Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and…

— Cobie Smulders

'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent…

— John Cassavetes

You can just start shooting things and see how it goes. But time is still money, so you have to know when…

— James Ivory

What's not to look forward to? It's like all the actors in all of the films. It's difficult to get Martin Freeman…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

How can you be the CEO of my life, when you have trouble managing your own? Why do you want to be…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

— Lou Diamond Phillips

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

— Taika Waititi

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

— Verne Troyer

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

— Irvin Kershner

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

— Spike Lee

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

— Maggie Smith

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

— Alexandra Daddario

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

— Penelope Gilliatt

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

— Tom Felton

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

— Hani Furstenberg

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown

— Tobe Hooper

Covering your eyes during a movie and watching it through your fingers

— Anonymous

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

— Bill McKibben

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

— Simon Beaufoy

This is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story.

— Gale Sayers