Film Quotes · Page 182

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

— Kristy Swanson

Filmmakers often tell me to watch the original version. I never do.

— Ali

I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.

— John Hurt

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

— Priyanka Chopra

You never know what clicks at the box office. It's very unpredictable.

— Bobby Deol

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

— Kay Kay Menon

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

— Donald Pleasence

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

— Peter Hedges

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break…

— Richard Linklater

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like…

— Jay Roach

Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But…

— Bill O'Reilly

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits…

— Dennis Muren

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

— Paul Greengrass

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've…

— Michael Moore

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

— Katie Holmes

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time…

— Nicolas Cage

By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and…

— Mickey Rourke

I'm certainly gratified that my name helps a film like this get made, and it's a film that Phillip has wanted to…

— Brendan Fraser

If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories,…

— Ennio Morricone

It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - —violent films. To me, seeing violence in a…

— Jim Capaldi

What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major…

— Ryan Gosling

I don't know. I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot…

— Oren Peli

I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory.…

— Werner Herzog

I don't know how to make award-winning films; I'm a director happy in making masala films.

— Raghava Lawrence

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

— Ritika Singh

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

— Rachel Weisz

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

— Jackie Chan

Professionally, I haven't done any film in 2013 as I was studying in NYU.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.

— Abhimanyu Singh

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

— Fritz Lang

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

— Akshay Kumar

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

— Mads Mikkelsen

I know that there is life beyond films. I know the difference between reel and real.

— Mahima Chaudhry

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

— Eric Stoltz

I am a very close friend of Sanjay Dutt and people still remind us of our film 'Vaastav.'

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

— Jack Whitehall

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

— Elisha Cuthbert