Film Quotes · Page 156

I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

— Justin Simien

It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

— Laszlo Nemes

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

— John Logan

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

— Murray Horwitz

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

— Molly Haskell

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Actors do all kinds of roles, but once in a while, we also want to do a meaningful film.

— Rhea Chakraborty

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

— Kym Whitley

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save…

— Danny Boyle

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes…

— Don Bluth

We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try…

— Jon Stewart

Directing is a very exhausting and painful experience. I have seen that pain and know what it can do to you.

— Samuthirakani

I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I…

— Oscar Isaac

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in…

— Sam Mendes

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special…

— Michael McKean

At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there…

— Mike Leigh

I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a…

— Francis Lawrence

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us…

— Debra Granik

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and…

— Olivia Thirlby

I never think anyone will like what I do. I'm always terrified the critics won't like my film and of course you…

— Terence Davies

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music.…

— Audrey Hepburn

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

— Ewan McGregor

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

— Michael Haneke

I don't want to be part of films that are easily forgotten.

— Diana Penty

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

— Tom Sturridge

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

— Diana Penty

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

— Pauly Shore

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

— Michael Jai White

That's what coaching is: It's watching film and putting guys in the best position.

— Devin McCourty

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

— Kriti Sanon

I was the first actor from Bihar to become a film star.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

— Steven Sebring

I can't accept every film that is offered to me. Not all of them interest me.

— Rekha

I have acted in nine regional languages and now I am ready to do a Bangla film.

— Nagma

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

— Alfred Hitchcock

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

— James Earl Jones

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

— Woody Allen