Film Quotes · Page 172

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

— Imelda Staunton

They always find new ways of talking about my movies.

— Todd Haynes

We don't want to jeopardise anybody's well being because of a film's release.

— Nikitin Dheer

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

— Eric Stoltz

Julie' has not been perceived as a sleazy film, and I am grateful for that.

— Neha Dhupia

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

— Marty Feldman

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

— Anthony Minghella

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.

— Anoushka Shankar

I've got to continue to study, and if it's not the plays, it's studying more film, studying more defenses, watching other guys…

— Mitchell Trubisky

You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.

— Dev Patel

Who says that big-budget films are safer than mid-range films? In terms of return on investment, I'd rather have 'Sling Blade' and…

— Sidney Sheinberg

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

— Guillermo del Toro

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

— Stanley Kubrick

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It…

— Disha Patani

Way back before 1980, prior to 'Disco Dancer' breaking into the collective consciousness of filmgoers, I had come to Chennai to compose…

— Bappi Lahiri

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office…

— Deepika Padukone

when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and…

— Martin Amis

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to…

— Arundhati Roy

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla…

— Woody Allen

I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted…

— Clint Eastwood

Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack…

— Roger Ebert

Movies are details. Movies are billions of details that come into a certain moment. So with all the years and months and…

— Annette Bening

When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number…

— Martin Scorsese

Woodfall wasn't deliberately telling working-class stories, but John Osborne and other writers who were involved with them were writing those stories, which…

— Rita Tushingham

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

— J. J. Abrams

It's only when I feel that I can do justice to a character that I take up a film.

— Prabhas

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

— Lady Gaga

I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

— Josh Brolin

'Satyagraha' brought the actress out in me and I am proud to be a part of this film.

— Amrita Rao

I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.

— Roland Orzabal

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

— Zoe Wanamaker

I'm not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.

— Marielle Heller

I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

— Ram Charan

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

— Peter Jackson

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

— John Ratzenberger

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

— Loni Anderson

When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.

— Richard Jenkins

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

— Rebecca Miller

The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.

— Eddie Kaye Thomas

There are so many things that go into a movie that it's amazing that anything gets made anyway.

— Richard Jenkins