Film Quotes · Page 197

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

— Joan Chen

As an actor, I can't be constantly worrying about the commercial returns of my film.

— Anushka Shetty

There's no such thing as making a film without stress.

— Kelly Reichardt

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

— Mani Ratnam

I don't usually watch my films in theatres when they release.

— Diljit Dosanjh

The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream.

— Dan Smith

I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot.

— Diana Rigg

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

— Chadwick Boseman

I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.

— Ryan Guzman

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become…

— Werner Herzog

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a…

— Jet Li

At the height of my film career I joined politics because I felt I had more to do than just act.

— Jaya Prada

'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp…

— Jason Clarke

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

— Gaby Hoffmann

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell…

— Andrew Sarris

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even…

— Kate del Castillo

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of…

— Michael Korda

The thing with America is that... however you want to denigrate them for being crass or whatever, with a film that they…

— John Michael McDonagh

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable…

— Patrick Stewart

It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew…

— Cintra Wilson

There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on.…

— Haile Gerima

Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that's not…

— Kathy Burke

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be…

— Melanie Lynskey

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

— Sam Rockwell

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

— Alex Gibney

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

— Nikita Dutta

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

— Gaspar Noe

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

— Asghar Farhadi

Not many people get that chance to have multiple studios wanting you to make a movie with them.

— Tom Green

I like to write film music that stands on its own.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

— Louis Leterrier

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

— Terri Windling

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

— Roman Polanski

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

— Ben Affleck

It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

— James McAvoy

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

— Frances McDormand

If you notice, many star kids don't get signed after their first film flops.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

— Mike Mills