Film Quotes · Page 140

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

— Stanley Kubrick

I didn't do that one great glorious film by which I'd be remembered forever.

— Simi Garewal

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

— William H. Macy

I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

— Andy Serkis

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

— Denis Villeneuve

Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

— Keith Carradine

If an actor doesn't believe in the film, the actor doesn't promote the film.

— Sajid Khan

“You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.”

— Gene Siskel

I'm always just looking for something that makes me feel something. I just want to feel something when I watch a movie.…

— Celine Song

Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you're talking $3 million…

— Brian Reitzell

I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff…

— Woody Harrelson

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time…

— Will Packer

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm…

— Jeff Bridges

I'm nervous that after having no releases for two years, I am going to have several in 2016. This is going to…

— Nikita Thukral

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic…

— Jim Lee

I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are;…

— Kim Longinotto

It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, in this fantastic A-C hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and…

— Sunitha Krishnan

Everybody who's making the movies needs to work hard to make sure they're good. And if you don't show up and see…

— Paul Feig

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to…

— Andrzej Wajda

The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in…

— Elvis Mitchell

I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard,…

— John C. Reilly

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling…

— Robert Gottlieb

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I…

— Jim Woodring

Nowadays, when you make movies, you don’t need any lights at all. You have to remember, back in the day, the film…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.

— Winona Ryder

I'm honored with the success of 'Omerta' at the Toronto Film Festival.

— Mukul Dev

I am not worried about people's expectations. I just want to get the film right.

— Mani Ratnam

I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.

— Esha Gupta

It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.

— Kevin Heffernan

There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.

— F. Gary Gray

“I love movies, but what I dislike about movies in the present, it shows miracles and lies.”

— Zachary T. P. Johnson

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

— John Hurt

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

— Danny Boyle

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

— Stanley Tucci

I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

— Isabelle Huppert

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

— Roger Ebert

Directing a film is a job? That's insane. I'm addicted now.

— Eva Victor

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

— Brian Wilson

Movies are my bread and butter and my inherent passion.

— Arjun Kapoor

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

— Ira Sachs