Film Quotes · Page 299

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

— Marcel Carne

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

— Daisy Ridley

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

— Steven Spielberg

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

— Barun Sobti

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

— Wong Kar-wai

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

— Stephen Moyer

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

— Kelly Lynch

We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't…

— Parker Posey

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to…

— Jonathan Groff

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but…

— Nish Kumar

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read…

— Judd Apatow

I feel that with more representation working behind the camera, the stories that are told in television, film and stage would become…

— Lauren Ridloff

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I…

— Park Chan-wook

I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan…

— Joe R. Lansdale

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't…

— Maria Callas

It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't…

— Sam Elliott

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. It's more that…

— Charlie Kaufman

What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film…

— Christopher Nolan

Both films and TV have their compunctions, their positives and negatives. For example, I explored a character at great length in 'Maryada'...…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are…

— Josh Fox

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone…

— Johan Renck

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

When my first film flopped, I got damn depressed.

— Shruti Haasan

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

— Herman Koch

I have plenty of memories from my stint in the Kannada film industry.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

— Colin Farrell

Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

— Marie Windsor

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.

— Nandita Das

You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.

— Scott Eastwood

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

— Nicolas Cage

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

— Patricia Clarkson

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

— Dougray Scott

'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.

— Christopher Lee

I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.

— George A. Romero

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

— William Beckett

I think we all know that in a film the content is the hero.

— Sanya Malhotra

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

— Denis Waitley