Film Quotes · Page 275

I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

— Steven Seagal

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

— Kirsten Dunst

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

— Famke Janssen

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Actors do all kinds of roles, but once in a while, we also want to do a meaningful film.

— Rhea Chakraborty

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

— Ewan McGregor

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

— Kym Whitley

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

— Michael Haneke

'Lucky Life' is my second narrative film. I worked on the idea for 'Lucky Life' while in Rwanda for my first film.

— Lee Isaac Chung

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a…

— Kathryn Bigelow

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because…

— Berenice Bejo

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I…

— Roland Emmerich

If I had used real names, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' would have ever seen the light of day because it was…

— Shoojit Sircar

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because…

— Edwin Catmull

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's…

— Tanith Lee

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you…

— David Slade

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school…

— Andrzej Wajda

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of…

— Boti Bliss

I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it's not like I'm having to…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it…

— Finn Wittrock

There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this…

— Brian Cox

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I…

— Barbara Kopple

Every year I am the most sought after performer in the event industry, so that means I am a good performer right?…

— Rahul Vaidya

I don't want to be part of films that are easily forgotten.

— Diana Penty

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

— Tom Sturridge

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

— Diana Penty

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

— Pauly Shore

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

— Michael Jai White

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie,

— Al Pacino

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

— Lucy Boynton

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

— George Pelecanos

I can do a film only if it excites me as an actor.

— Anushka Sharma

I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

— Justin Simien

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

— John Logan

It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

— Laszlo Nemes

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

— Murray Horwitz

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

— Molly Haskell

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

— Amyra Dastur