Film Quotes · Page 256

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

— David Strathairn

Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

— Dulquer Salmaan

I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.

— Todd Solondz

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

— Alison Goldfrapp

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

— Christopher McQuarrie

My directors are always more confident about me doing a role than I am.

— Mahira Khan

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not…

— Tony Jaa

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger…

— Martine Syms

Nicholas Cage is such an incredible actor. He brings so much more to the hero roles. And you know, spending a day…

— Amber Heard

Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.

— Jiang Wen

I find it difficult to write with reference to the most memorable moments in film, when for me the best moments in…

— Lynne Ramsay

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters…

— Roger Ebert

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it…

— Meg Ryan

Make it compulsory that at least four weeks in a year the theaters have to screen local films and let them choose…

— Victor Banerjee

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because…

— Farhan Akhtar

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's…

— Ciaran Hinds

I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when…

— Simon Boswell

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One…

— Michael Caine

You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage,…

— Jeremy Irons

You have to be very specific with the suggestions of how you want to show things, not just with dialogue but also…

— Lisa Joy

I shot my undergraduate work on 35mm. I love the way it looks, but I haven't shot film in a while. If…

— Laurel Nakadate

Pauline Kael had seen Nashville, and she loved Nashville. When I called her, she immediately responded to me because we had become…

— Jerry Weintraub

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

— Sean Connery

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

— Thomas Jane

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

— Swoosie Kurtz

I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.

— Sean Baker

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

— Kurt Russell

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you.

— David Burnett

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

— Roger Ebert

I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.

— Steven Berkoff

When a movie is made, you toy with many ideas, and a prequel to 'Dabangg' is one of them.

— Arbaaz Khan

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

— Lawrence Kasdan

In a way, you just can't predict a perfect movie for 'MST3K.'

— Baron Vaughn

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.

— Simone Signoret

I want to be part of movies which set benchmarks for a new kind of cinema.

— Rana Daggubati

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

— Claire Denis

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

— Drake

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

— Ben Barnes