Film Quotes · Page 205

As the death of the middle class of film has happened, it has been re-birthed in television.

— Mark Duplass

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

— Julie Harris

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

— Billy Wilder

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

— Catherine Deneuve

You give a hundred percent of yourself to a film and then move on.

— Zeenat Aman

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

— Richard Jenkins

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

— Brent Sexton

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.

— Farah Khan

Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated…

— Manoj Kumar

I didn't expect to pursue acting at all, let alone TV and film, let alone New York or L.A. I was quite…

— Carrie Coon

I started tweeting with the first film I directed. I found it the best way to promote it and to connect to…

— Diego Luna

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just…

— Todd Haynes

I like working with directors I respect, who give me freedom but also give me a good base from which to work.

— Craig Revel Horwood

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as…

— William H. Macy

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are…

— Anna Kendrick

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

— David Mamet

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities…

— Erland Josephson

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any…

— Dave Franco

It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without…

— Ryan Gosling

Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up…

— Rob Lowe

I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking…

— Oren Moverman

I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed…

— Ira Sachs

After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back…

— Devin Ratray

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements…

— Nicholas Sparks

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

— Robert Englund

There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.

— Rupert Everett

When you make a film you make a film. You don't think about how it will be marketed.

— Rajkumar Hirani

When I was 18 or 19, my one ambition was to make a film.

— Peter Brook

As an actor, you want to do your best but not overshine the film. No actor is above the film.

— Anushka Sharma

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

— Jacques Derrida

'Lootera' happened nearly 10 years after television. It was the first film I auditioned for.

— Vikrant Massey

Yes, I would love to do more such films that take on issues like corruption.

— Suresh Gopi

There are no tangents in filmmaking. Every part of the process informs another.

— Fred Hechinger

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

— Larry Fessenden

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

— Burt Reynolds

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

— Warwick Davis

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

— Christopher Hampton

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

— Morgan Freeman

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I am happy with my journey in the Indian film industry.

— Asin