Film Quotes · Page 281

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

— John Cassavetes

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

— M. Night Shyamalan

When you have a good director, everything is taken care of.

— Manisha Koirala

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

— Mark Wahlberg

Sometimes on a big feature film it seems to take far, far longer to do things than it should.

— Nick Searcy

Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.

— Twyla Tharp

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

— John Badham

I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

— John C. Reilly

“Alternate universe in which the 1995 movie Waterworld wasn’t a box office flop, causing instant, worldwide acceptance of its important message about…

— Guillaume Morissette

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

— Georgina Haig

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose…

— Joseph Cotten

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in…

— Kristen Wiig

By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature…

— Jim Cummings

You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get…

— Gordon Strachan

If one looks at my choices, all of them have been unconventional. There's not a single song-and-dance or romantic film.

— Richa Chadha

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

— Parker Posey

People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I…

— James Cameron

I think that the world of making movies and how movies get made has certainly changed and evolved over the years. So…

— Anna Boden

Latino actors and actresses have had to struggle for decades, but when I came around with Real Women Have Curves, attitudes were…

— America Ferrera

“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports…

— Mark Simpson

I love independent films because I love to help, I love to assist, I love to pass along knowledge or experience to…

— Tamlyn Tomita

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to…

— Amanda Seyfried

In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope…

— Joe Morgenstern

I always put myself in the audience's seat, whether it is a film like 'Judwaa 2' or 'Badlapur.' There has to be…

— Varun Dhawan

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

— John Boyega

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

— Sylvester Stallone

I am a very calculative producer. I make films like business.

— Bhushan Kumar

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

— Jason Reitman

It's a happy thing if a film does good business.

— Nani

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

— James Toback

'Love You Hamesha' was never my debut film. I just did a special appearance in it.

— Riya Sen

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

— Alan Parker

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

— Krysten Ritter

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

— Michael Moore

I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

— Alden Ehrenreich

I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.

— Autre Ne Veut

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

— Ira Sachs

My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist.

— Rahul Roy

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

— Samantha Mathis