Film Quotes · Page 237

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs

'The Room' has never interested me as a film. The reaction interested me.

— Greg Sestero

I don't want to do only one film a year; I want to work more.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

It's better to be a star on TV and do selective work, rather than act in some stupid film.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

The only time I use women in films is when they're naked or dead.

— Joel Silver

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

— Ridley Scott

I'm used to being an actor. Being a director is a lot more work.

— Nick Searcy

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

— Susanne Bier

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct,…

— Hiroyuki Sanada

The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per…

— Ava DuVernay

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

— Frederic Tcheng

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We…

— Isaac Mizrahi

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how…

— Meryl Streep

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your…

— Robert Patrick

Johns will give me a good critique of my work. Before starting my film 'Shutter' I gave the script to Johns for…

— Joy Mathew

I wanted to be in film or TV, making content, not being on camera. I actually never had that ambition, as crazy…

— Spencer Pratt

His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for…

— Bob Colacello

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one…

— Greta Garbo

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A…

— Karyn Kusama

I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would…

— Darius McCrary

I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity…

— Jason Graves

I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a…

— Hugh Bonneville

Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the…

— Oren Peli

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use…

— John Corigliano

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

— Ava Gardner

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

— Howard Hawks

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

— Adriana Trigiani

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

— John Denver

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

— Walter Salles

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.

— William H. Macy

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

— Rob Marshall

I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.

— Yami Gautam

Watching films is my obsession and I am lucky that my obsession became my profession.

— Manoj Kumar

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

— Edward Norton

The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.

— Mahima Chaudhry

Personally, I always wanted to do a rom-com or an action film.

— Sunny Singh

Yes, I did some horrible films before but I don't have any regrets. It's a process of learning.

— Arshad Warsi

It is very easy to make an art film. They are an exercise in self-deception.

— Joy Mathew

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

— Freddie Highmore