Film Quotes · Page 303

I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.

— Robert Eggers

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

— Sam Neill

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

— Quentin Tarantino

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents…

— Orson Welles

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.

— Werner Herzog

I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'

— Courtney B. Vance

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

— Steven Soderbergh

I always feel your movie will be as strong as your weakest link.

— Farah Khan

The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.

— Priyanka Chopra

I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Some filmmakers make films to please themselves and a handful of critics, so they get 5-star reviews but their films don't run…

— Sajid Khan

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going…

— Orlando Bloom

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions…

— Conrad Hall

I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to…

— Emma Stone

It's either some sort of a kismet or something that I've been offered a film like 'Zero Dark Thirty,' which I would…

— Greig Fraser

'Whale Rider' was quite an extraordinary shoot. We were in that community on the east coast and so much of what you…

— Rachel House

I feel you need a big film to be seen but then, you also need to do something where you get to…

— Angad Bedi

Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame…

— Camille Paglia

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally,…

— Alan Rickman

I started movies in 1980. I don't think anything's changed for the best. When it comes down to certain technologies and certain…

— William Forsythe

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history,…

— Noreena Hertz

You've gotta watch as much film as you can. You've gotta know every play they're gonna run and who shoots the most…

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

I'm involved with every single thing that they do as far as just being aware, and then they ask my opinion. I'm…

— Klay Hall

I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film…

— Whit Stillman

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

— Anushka Sharma

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

— Kamal Haasan

“I think I would give up movies for this feeling.”

— Melissa Keil

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

— Edward Burns

For me, I always want to make movies that have something to say.

— Nia DaCosta

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

— Cecilia Bartoli

The best encouragement is when your films run and people who watch it say 'Well done.'

— Sharmila Tagore

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

— Jim Jarmusch

Close-Up has affected later films that I've made.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

— Madonna Ciccone

I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

— John Hillcoat

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

— Anne Hathaway

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

— Scarlett Johansson

I never liked 'Donnie Darko' quite as much as my film school peers.

— Justin Simien

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the…

— Guillermo del Toro

My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd…

— Sharon Lawrence