Film Quotes · Page 361

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

— Jack Nicholson

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look…

— Edward Norton

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little…

— Richard Linklater

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

— Tilda Swinton

Many people say that theatre has no money, but it has been the stepping stone for the best film actors of our…

— Javed Ali

See, nobody understood how we were able to make a film like 'A Room With a View' so cheaply, for about $3.2…

— James Ivory

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or…

— Nick Cave

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when…

— Dan Stevens

We also have this reflex of using specialists for everything, instead of having the person who is there every day with them,…

— Philippe Falardeau

It was Tim Burton's 'Batman' in, what, '89, I think? What we could see was there was someone behind the curtain controlling…

— Ross Duffer

Yeah, but the problem remains that its hard to find great scripts and great material. The truth is that The Kings Speech,…

— Tom Hooper

“The event that will light the way for immigration in North America is the talking picture. The silent film brings nothing but…

— Michael Ondaatje

There's a trend in Hollywood at the moment where studio executives are coming from more of a marketing background, and that is…

— Tim Bevan

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on…

— Haylie Duff

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter…

— Johnny Depp

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way…

— Squeak Carnwath

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

— D. A. Pennebaker

I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip…

— Finn Wolfhard

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little…

— Gary Oldman

I have a long list of filmmakers I want to work with. But I have also always had this touch of reality,…

— Vaani Kapoor

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies…

— Barbara Steele

I really feel like the proper representation of women, in TV and film, is really important and vital.

— Kylie Bunbury

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I…

— Sarah Gadon

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show…

— Anthony Michael Hall

While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up…

— Henry Selick

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

— Colin Firth

I think any actor that says 'I never watch my films' is a liar because you have to watch it at least…

— Cillian Murphy

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue…

— Troy Donahue

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my…

— Don Cheadle

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on…

— David Cronenberg

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

— Michel Gondry

We kind of have some ideas for sequels. The movie [Sausage Party] ends in a way that implies a next chapter.

— Seth Rogen

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes…

— Rian Johnson

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll…

— Miranda Otto

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still…

— Jean-Louis Trintignant

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with…

— Rick McCallum

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

— Steve Zahn