Film Quotes · Page 302

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

— Aimee Mullins

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

— Theodore Levitt

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

— Chandra Wilson

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

— Roger Ross Williams

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

— Emily Blunt

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

— Peter Greenaway

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

— Alan Rudolph

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

— Joe Wright

I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.

— Robyn Davidson

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work.…

— John Hurt

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try…

— Robert Carlyle

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

— Mani Ratnam

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the…

— Peter Gabriel

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much…

— George A. Romero

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

— Garth Brooks

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

— Christopher Nolan

I believe the important part of directing really is finding the right people for the right roles. Sometimes you go for what's…

— Renny Harlin

I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in…

— Neill Blomkamp

It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director,…

— Mary Harron

I want to diversify a bit. I don't wanna throw myself into another big blockbuster or another big franchise anytime soon. So…

— Emma Watson

I did sign a film titled 'Gehraai' opposite Ishaa Koppikar but soon enough, I realised that I wouldn't get anywhere if I…

— Nikitin Dheer

Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the…

— Steven Soderbergh

That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you…

— Jonathan Levine

Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna…

— Ja Rule

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

— Peter Capaldi

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

— Richard King

I mean, I'm so far removed from the film industry.

— Iman Vellani

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

— Catherine Deneuve

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

— Andy Cohen

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

— Errol Flynn

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

— Jiang Wen

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

— Rachel Griffiths

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

— Matthew Vaughn

Two directors always come with two thought processes.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

— Ang Lee

I am discovering myself as a director all the time.

— Takashi Miike

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

— Donnie Yen

People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

— Woody Allen

For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun in.

— Agnes Bruckner