Film Quotes · Page 26

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

— Tony Scott

I really love being finance director.

— Judith McKenna

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

— Nancy Meyers

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

— Diana Penty

(When asked what a director does) I help.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

My main focus was to do a good film.

— Soham Chakraborty

I prefer doing feature films.

— Taraji P. Henson

Directing is like putting together a collage.

— Ethan Hawke

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.

— Guillermo del Toro

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

— Elia Kazan

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

— Bo Derek

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

— Dario Argento

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

— Bernadette Peters

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

— Nicolas Roeg

When you make a film, you come to say something.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.

— Drew Goddard

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

— Terence Stamp

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that…

— Alan Cumming

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

— Anonymous

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't…

— Willem Dafoe

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a…

— Simon Callow

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to…

— Lena Dunham

I think people are uncomfortable seeing pregnant women, particularly with any kind of conflict. [Pregnancy is] very much a projection of life…

— Rose Byrne

For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was…

— Werner Herzog

I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His…

— Michael Korda

These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant…

— Stephen J. Dubner

I'm always happy when I learn more about communication in the wide free scope of that word. So next is a move,…

— Giuseppe Andrews

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the…

— Ralph Fiennes

I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think…

— Todd Phillips

I'd like a balance of class and mass films.

— Keerthy Suresh

I've never done a film that I'm proud of.

— Stewart Granger

Making a film is a challenge.

— Bennett Miller

If you turn on the film, I can play.

— Chris Borland

I loved 'The Jerk.' That was my favorite movie.

— Will Forte

'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.

— Grant Heslov

I wish I could do a black and white film.

— Tony Todd

Some films will work, some won't.

— Rishi Kapoor