Film Quotes · Page 372

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

— David Fincher

It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.

— Ashton Sanders

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see…

— Dwight Yoakam

Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.

— Mark Canton

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n'…

— Shawn Crahan

I've always had the luck or blessing that someone would say, 'I liked what you did in that movie. I'd like you…

— Charlie Murphy

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role…

— Zareen Khan

After 'Fukrey,' when a filmmaker came to narrate a film to me, I started crying. It was a dream come true moment…

— Varun Sharma

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich…

— Larry Brooks

Be decisive and persevere. You have to recognize that, at the end of the day, no one really cares if you make…

— Ruba Nadda

You always have three movies that you have to reduce into one. You have the screenplay. And then, you do a workshop…

— Louis Leterrier

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but…

— Ray Winstone

It's really quite an interesting dynamic. I wanted to play to the truth of who Manute was in the first film, while…

— Dennis Haysbert

I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to…

— Steven Caple Jr

I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since…

— Steven Spielberg

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

— Jean-Pierre Melville

There are so many directors who don't like any kind of interaction on set except for producers. I am the opposite.

— Sean Baker

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

— Mia Wasikowska

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and…

— David Lynch

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

— Dexter Fletcher

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their…

— Troy Duffy

I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

— Varun Dhawan

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

— Edward Furlong

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

— Cillian Murphy

I am not somebody who feels comfortable socialising at parties where many film stars gather and endlessly chat, because I am quite…

— Amyra Dastur

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long…

— Christopher Nolan

I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their…

— Elizabeth Olsen

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a…

— Julian Fellowes

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

— Vsevolod Pudovkin

I had done some stuff on camera, then I did some film dubbing when I lived in Europe. When I came back,…

— Russi Taylor

We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be…

— Peter Greenaway

If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about…

— Abhijit Banerjee

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where…

— Zac Efron

I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be…

— Kevin Spacey

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares?…

— Monica Bellucci

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

— David Slade

I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's…

— David Lambert