Film Quotes · Page 271

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

— Sean Penn

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

— Todd Haynes

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

— Radha Mitchell

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

— Kelly Lynch

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

— Tilda Swinton

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

— Alain Resnais

Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.

— Max von Sydow

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

— Sanjay Dutt

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much…

— Duncan Jones

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

— Vaani Kapoor

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a…

— Josh Lucas

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80…

— Howard Shore

Any good film you see gives you enough motivation and adrenaline rush to produce good content, while a bad film can get…

— Mani Ratnam

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of…

— Tom Hooper

The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and…

— Pierce Brosnan

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy…

— Tamra Davis

I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things,…

— Cillian Murphy

'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss…

— Tippi Hedren

That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer…

— Van Morrison

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed…

— Tom Hollander

The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally…

— Guillermo del Toro

I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of…

— Barry Jenkins

When you're acting and directing, you're standing there acting with another actor, and you're trying to do your performance, and at the…

— Kevin Heffernan

A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process.

— Lucrecia Martel

Nobody knows when they sign a film that the role they are playing will be a huge hit.

— Saswata Chatterjee

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

— Jodie Foster

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

— Joel Siegel

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

— Matthew Vaughn

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

— Stephen Hopkins

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

— Baz Luhrmann

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

— Nell Freudenberger

Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.

— Jon M. Chu

I don't think that a film that has children in it necessarily needs to be a children's film.

— Pankaj Kapur

No, there is no 'need' for me to do a social cinema.

— Rishi Kapoor

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

— Alexandre Desplat

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

— Jim Piddock

My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.

— Celine Sciamma