Film Quotes · Page 297

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

— Clint Eastwood

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

— Melanie Laurent

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

— Adam Arkin

No matter how much buzz you create for a film, it's the content that finally gets judged.

— Akhil Akkineni

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

— Billy Campbell

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

— Ang Lee

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

— Ted Shackelford

There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'

— Valerie Faris

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

— Lucy Walker

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all…

— Ralph Fiennes

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to…

— Nick Castle

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

— Werner Herzog

In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you.

— Alicia Vikander

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending…

— June Allyson

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

— Ali Suliman

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business.…

— Ronnie Apteker

I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic,…

— Joe Johnston

I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A.…

— Werner Herzog

It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there…

— Warwick Davis

Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories…

— Chiara Barzini

So, first, I wanted to be a part of the project because I thought it was an important story to tell. On…

— Zoe Kravitz

I think it's better to be too early and disturb a few people - but have other people say it was necessary…

— Uwe Boll

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is…

— T.I

I think 'Ratcatcher' broke even as a film, but it got a good critical response. I think that people knew that it…

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.

— Dan Fogler

There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.

— Ice T

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

— Peter Shaffer

The background score plays an important role in black comedies.

— D. Imman

Hopefully one day wars will only be fought in movies and may the best producer win

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters

— Brendan Fraser

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

— Zoe Cassavetes

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

— Dianne Wiest

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

— Leon Askin

I am very proud of 'Newton.' It's a wonderful film.

— Rajkummar Rao

I was extremely nervous during my first film, even my second film.

— Tripti Dimri

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

— Christopher Nolan

I want to do films that are genre-based and character-based.

— Rana Daggubati

'Baadshaho' is not an imaginative film, it's real and made it an entertaining way.

— Bhushan Kumar