Film Quotes · Page 374

I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it…

— Nia Long

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together…

— Demian Bichir

There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something…

— Amanda Seyfried

I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy…

— Vir Das

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

— Elia Kazan

I know De Niro, you know, it's all famous that he packed on 60 pounds for Raging Bull, but ah, he just…

— Kevin James

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

— Estelle

My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

— Barry Jenkins

Acting for me is liberating. It's almost like therapy, because I grew up in a blue-collar environment where you're not supposed to…

— Kurt Yaeger

It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing.…

— Sarah Gadon

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this…

— Dario Argento

It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so…

— Giovanna Cau

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture.…

— Kaya Scodelario

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain…

— Maggie Smith

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked.…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

With Batman&Robin, the fourth entry in the recent Batman movie series, the profitable franchise appears poised to take a nosedive. This film,…

— James Berardinelli

We make movies and we all try our best and sometimes we connect with the audience, sometimes we don't.

— Justin Lin

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's…

— Karina Longworth

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he…

— Christopher Eccleston

I always knew I'd struggle to be cast in commercial and studio films and that my niche would be independent film and…

— Lily Gladstone

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I make a movie, I don't do any shows because the focus is completely on the film but when I take…

— Farah Khan

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and…

— Anushka Shetty

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle…

— Adrienne Barbeau

I have an acting crush on Gene Hackman; I have an acting crush on Tommy Lee Jones. Gary Cooper. Jimmy Cagney. Michael…

— Norbert Leo Butz

“The remaking of Corbin Wale was a constant overturning, like the ocean tides. The remaking of Alex Barrow had been far less…

— Roan Parrish

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of…

— George Lucas

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

— Natalie Portman

Everything about 'Avunu 2' will be many notches higher than its prequel. The sequel is scarier, and there'll be more thrills and…

— Harshvardhan Rane

Even as a producer, I want to work with certain actors. Now, if they don't want to be a part of the…

— Dino Morea

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's…

— Chris Meledandri

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was…

— Peter Jackson

Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

— Josephine Decker

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

— Jenni Olson

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with…

— Sarah Polley

“Watching movies was, and still is, an opportunity for my heart to rush irregularly while the cost, for me, remains low.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

— Ben Barnes

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.

— Gwendoline Christie

It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to…

— Robert Pattinson

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business,…

— Dev Anand