Film Quotes · Page 249

I think of my body of work as a story that flows and plays in my mind like a film.

— Giveon

One should be able to take the whole family along to watch a film.

— Farah Khan

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

— Richard Jenkins

I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.

— Amit Trivedi

I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.

— Ron Howard

'Ex Machina' was the first film I'd auditioned for. I didn't have an agent.

— Sonoya Mizuno

Doing less films is sometimes intentional, but sometimes things just don't work out.

— Ali Fazal

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

— Charles Bronson

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like,…

— Trey Parker

I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music…

— Mike Patton

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking…

— Anthony Minghella

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

— Robert Duvall

Each experience has offered something different in regards to story. I really didn't want to do any more sports films. And then,…

— Omar Epps

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And…

— Tim Matheson

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At…

— Frederick Lenz

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

Banaras really pulls you. I had been to the city several years ago for a film shoot. Though I have very fleeting…

— Himani Shivpuri

I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I…

— Michel Gondry

Travel is best when it's as unplanned as possible so that you get that real sense of adventure. The film 'Thelma and…

— Douglas Booth

Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an…

— Kurt Russell

This is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It…

— Wong Kar-wai

Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some…

— Richard Linklater

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular…

— Steven Spielberg

One of my favorite L.A. movies is 'Ed Wood,' and it's about how Bela Lugosi went from being this movie star personality…

— Shane Black

I believe that the performance of my actors is of utmost importance to make a good film.

— Pankaj Kapur

I'd quite like to film in Central Park. I think we have asked, but we're not allowed to.

— James May

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

— Andrea Arnold

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

— Anurag Kashyap

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

— Victoria Abril

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

— Mark Gatiss

I just love movies where they blow stuff up, in your face, and it's so excited and cool.

— Sasheer Zamata

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

— Peter Weller

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

— Curtis Armstrong

Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.

— Anonymous

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

— Ira Sachs

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

— Serge Daney

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

— Adam Rapp

Is it really every 10 years that you get to work on a great movie? That can't be.

— Casey Affleck

When I hear the news that the pirated version of my film is doing rounds, I cannot keep quiet.

— Karthik Subbaraj