Film Quotes · Page 159

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I love SXSW. I've made three films; they've all premiered at SXSW.

— Keith Maitland

The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.

— Wang Jianlin

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

— Jim McKay

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

— Jay Duplass

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

— George Clooney

A film career does not define me. There is a other side to my life.

— Shamita Shetty

When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role,…

— Madhuri Dixit

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of…

— Rachel True

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Boy, there's nothing more thrilling than a chase. I'd often thought, over the years, that someone should do a whole film where…

— Mel Gibson

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

— Ed Begley, Jr

I am an actress. My first film was a Telugu film, my second film was Bollywood, and third was Indo-Chinese.

— Disha Patani

It's really good and it really differentiates. If you think you know the film, you're about to see it again in a…

— Billy Zane

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions…

— Liv Ullmann

The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big…

— Sarah Gavron

To know about the movie [jack the giant Slayer], wow. It's an adventure, there are so many special effects flying around. It's…

— Eleanor Tomlinson

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can…

— Jean Renoir

Whenever we went out to film in the street we would end up in the police station and in the offices of…

— Hassan Blasim

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached…

— Billy Zane

I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested…

— Olivia Thirlby

I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in…

— Sean Baker

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

— Will Rogers

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

— Sai Pallavi

The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

— Alex Winter

All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.

— Daniel Kaluuya

I don't like to stagnate. I'd get bored doing similar films.

— Catherine Tresa

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.

— Liev Schreiber

I said yes to a Gujarati film because I loved the script.

— Supriya Pathak

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

— Jason Statham

In our film industry I've realised actresses are not respected at all.

— Tanushree Dutta

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

— Alexander Payne

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

— Jim Rash

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

— Scarlett Johansson

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

— Ciaran Hinds

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

— Arnon Goldfinger

What I'd like is to act on film. I'd really like to act.

— Ken Berry