Film Quotes · Page 259

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

— Freeman Patterson

I didn't take all the films that were offered, just those with dignity.

— Katy Jurado

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

— Diablo Cody

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

— Chrissie Fit

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

— Steven Soderbergh

A movie should be made keeping in mind they are not hurting any religious sentiments.

— Raza Murad

Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves' changed my very idea of cinema.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing…

— Angelina Jolie

Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different…

— Darren Aronofsky

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

— Curtis Hanson

Being a part of a good film is always satisfying and when audiences also accept your effort, it gives you twice the…

— Rockline Venkatesh

I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I…

— Rani Mukerji

I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that…

— Zac Posen

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs.…

— Imogen Heap

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for…

— Steven Spielberg

Sixty-five days principle photography, five-day weeks, which is the only way I'll work. With my cinematographer Russell Boyd, we take as much…

— Peter Weir

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well…

— Frank Oz

The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my…

— Elia Suleiman

You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could…

— David Oakes

I think that to me, films are personal affairs. It doesn't mean that I am against other people doing things differently, but…

— Tamer El Said

I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles…

— Emma Watson

The feature film has changed a lot. Art houses are gone and people show a certain type of cinema in the big…

— David Lynch

A lot of movies come out and you think, 'Couldn't you have just tried a little harder?'

— Dede Gardner

“You have to feel. Otherwise you end up like the piano teacher.”

— Veronika Mittermair

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

— Mara Wilson

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I don't get stressed out about my films because the box-office collection is not in my control.

— Prabhu Deva

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

— Jeff Bridges

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

— Mike Leigh

If you want to make good movies, one has to take a step to create these.

— Binnu Dhillon

I always used to tell others that 'we should make films to make the people happy.'

— Karunas

After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

— Billy Bob Thornton

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

— Cate Blanchett

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

— Alan Arkin

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.

— Ewan McGregor

Before Internet existed, films were my source of real information from the world.

— Andrea Suarez Paz

'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

— Roger Moore