Film Quotes · Page 219

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

— Hugo Weaving

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

— Julie Harris

Nobody expects girls to do something smart or give one liners in a film.

— Nushrat Bharucha

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

— Zeenat Aman

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

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

I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro…

— Lance Gross

I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

— John Lasseter

Ninety per cent of the times, filming is a cakewalk. You start it, shoot it and release it without any major hassles.…

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence…

— Morris Chestnut

“And who knows, maybe someone famous will respond to my ad... Maybe Johnny Depp will respond! I've always loved him since he…

— Emily Harper

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what…

— Robert Bresson

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in…

— Andrzej Wajda

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I…

— Elia Kazan

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to…

— Terry Gilliam

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am…

— Abhishek Bachchan

On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and…

— Natasha Richardson

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've…

— Hugh Grant

In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were…

— Jason Blum

You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just…

— Josh Hartnett

Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than…

— Thomas Ian Griffith

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and…

— Orson Welles

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

— Robert Englund

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

— Richard Jenkins

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

— Rupert Everett

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

— Vikrant Massey

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

— Peter Brook

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

— Rajkumar Hirani

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

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

— Fred Hechinger

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

— Suresh Gopi

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

— Burt Reynolds

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

— Larry Fessenden

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

— Christopher Hampton

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

— Warwick Davis

I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

— Robert Davi

I would say movies all have their own world or reality they're built in.

— Zoe Bell