Film Quotes · Page 508

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out…

— John Sayles

Maybe after Kaafir,' big producers will trust me with solo projects. They would be able to believe that I can shoulder a…

— Mohit Raina

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was…

— Takeshi Kitano

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires,…

— William Monahan

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the…

— Ben Wheatley

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

— Todd Phillips

I've gotten to the point where I'm comfortable guarding any position on the floor. It just didn't happen overnight. It came with…

— Draymond Green

I hope films will be somehow preserved and seen by as many people as possible in the future. There are endless treasures…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page…

— Bruce Willis

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he…

— Scott Glenn

I have been into bodies and fitness, so I am very critical about how a body should look in terms of flaunting…

— Bipasha Basu

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a…

— Conrad Veidt

I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was…

— Kristen Stewart

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and…

— Morten Tyldum

The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real…

— Joe Morton

I think there is no racism in this film industry. They are only in need of talent, though it takes time; but,…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of…

— Charles Walters

'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role.…

— Laurence Fishburne

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in,…

— Rob Reiner

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors…

— Orson Welles

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

— Kenneth Lonergan

I find that usually when I watch something like horror film, I'm constantly thinking no, it's not going to happen.

— Katie Holmes

Taking up the choreography for an awards night is completely different from choreographing a song for a film.

— Prabhu Deva

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera…

— Asa Butterfield

I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys…

— Matt Bomer

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling…

— Tinie Tempah

When K. Vishwanath made the film 'Shankarabharanam,' he wanted to bring back Carnatic classical music to mainstream. It's popularity was waning in…

— Hamsalekha

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able…

— Megan Fox

By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time,…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

— Peter Jackson

I'd always wanted to be in the film industry in the U.K. but I didn't really push myself to get myself noticed.

— Gareth Evans

I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.

— Peyton Reed

Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King,…

— Frederick Lenz

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

— Anubhav Sinha

I prefer to do in-person interviews, but it's all a part of the job, and I love talking about these movies so…

— Corey Hawkins

So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the…

— David Zucker

I want to do all kind of films. I don't want to be bracketed into one kind of cinema and if somebody…

— Zoya Akhtar