Film Quotes · Page 126

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

— Kenneth Oppel

I really like working with different directors. It's really fun.

— Asia Kate Dillon

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

— Lina Wertmuller

Good films with great content is what I dream about.

— Mahira Khan

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

— Bela Lugosi

I like to work with directors who write their own stories.

— Udo Kier

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

— Alden Ehrenreich

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

— John Cusack

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go…

— Michael Shannon

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate…

— Woody Allen

I am not afraid of slowing down moments - if you have the right emotion in the right place at the right…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than…

— Arthur Erickson

It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man.…

— Naomi Watts

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend…

— Feist

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if…

— Woody Allen

In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.

— Danny Trejo

Shin [Biyajima] rides down with this big ol' Japanese grin and giggle and I'm like what? Two years later, when I started…

— Travis Rice

When I was writing the story of 'Omerta' I was not writing it to make a film or something. But when a…

— Mukul Dev

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. It's not like, "I don't…

— Laura Dern

I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an…

— William H. Macy

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was…

— George A. Romero

I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however…

— Roger Deakins

It's not that I don't want to do different films. The non-mainstream stuff that I did started to get successful... But for…

— Abhay Deol

I was so glad that I was able to use my skills of speaking Chinese in a film where the character is…

— Fala Chen

Take any movie from 'Khamoshi' to 'Black,' I was always clear about my subjects.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

— John Cassavetes

Right from my first film, I've introduced several singers and lyricists to the industry.

— Vijay Antony

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

— John Waters

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

— Kartik Aaryan

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

— Anonymous

It is difficult, but I definitely do want to make a film in Malayalam at some point of my life.

— Gautham Menon

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

— Jacque Fresco

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

— Sam Peckinpah

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

— Farah Khan

If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

— Emir Kusturica

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

— Ridley Scott

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

— John Badham

I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

— John C. Reilly

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

— John Boyega

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

— M. Night Shyamalan