Film Quotes · Page 347

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you…

— William Monahan

I really feel that a big part of my job - besides getting the money - is to see to it that…

— Letty Aronson

Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.

— Martin Landau

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

— Ehren Kruger

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really…

— Nan Goldin

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or…

— Paul Dano

When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.

— Doug Liman

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a…

— Spike Lee

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They…

— Steve Buscemi

I'm working on a number of different things. I'm working on a couple of TV things and I'm working on a couple…

— Neil Burger

Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted…

— Kevin D. Williamson

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid…

— Gus Van Sant

There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience…

— Tabu

The foreign audiences are somewhat surprised and happy to find an American film that asks questions about American culture. There's a certain…

— Matt Ross

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a…

— Richard Beymer

I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive…

— Noel Clarke

Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.

— Danielle Arbid

In my career, I've said 'no' many times. I am often offered to direct a film from someone else's screenplay.

— Alice Rohrwacher

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad…

— Joel Edgerton

Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Even after nine flops, an actor will get his tenth film. But, if a director gives a flop after nine hits, he…

— P. Vasu

It's always nice to have another filmmaker to reassure you that you are making a good quality film.

— Rana Daggubati

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

— Elia Kazan

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI,…

— Vin Diesel

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge…

— Henry Selick

I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area…

— Miriam Shor

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have…

— Rod Steiger

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been…

— Sandra Bullock

I am a movie buff - I even claim I am a Hindi film encyclopedia post 1988(only because that was the year…

— Saqib Saleem

Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.

— Kelly Preston

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something…

— Michel Gondry

I know that it has been a long time since 'Punda,' my first Kannada film, released, but I was determined to wait…

— Meghana Raj

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making…

— Orson Welles

Every movie is approved by the authorities keeping in mind the rules and regulations. Only then are these films released for public…

— Rockline Venkatesh

I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to…

— Donald Glover

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were…

— Emilie Schindler

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two…

— Danielle Harris

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

— Hope Davis

People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it…

— Woody Allen

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love…

— Jonny Lee Miller