Film Quotes · Page 562

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

— Ray Manzarek

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put…

— Ralph Fiennes

You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man…

— Peter Gabriel

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts…

— Jason Bateman

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed…

— Zach Braff

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for…

— Katharine Isabelle

I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't…

— Jonathan Krisel

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

— Ozwald Boateng

I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however…

— Roger Deakins

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was…

— George A. Romero

In fact, what I love about cinema is the real work itself, which is still a collective effort, all done together. I…

— Alice Rohrwacher

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio…

— James Wan

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they…

— Robert Towne

If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no,…

— Robert Pattinson

I saw the finished version of 'The French Dispatch' quite a while ago, and it's just amazing. It's so incredibly strong and…

— Alexandre Desplat

I'm neither excited nor worried when my film releases. As an artiste, I would definitely want people to like my work... that's…

— Sayani Gupta

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.

— Tishuan Scott

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do…

— Robert Duvall

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

— Salman Rushdie

When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does…

— Ray Harryhausen

I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story…

— Ben Drew

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile…

— James McAvoy

Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't…

— Jeet Gannguli

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as…

— Pamela Yates

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

— Guillermo del Toro

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and…

— Don Cheadle

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

— Norman Jewison

I always put a lot of heart in my movies in general, but in 'It' too, I put a lot of heart…

— Andy Muschietti

I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.

— Greta Gerwig

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of…

— Diana Krall

I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who…

— Joan Chen

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions…

— Timothy Noah

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how…

— Rosamund Pike

Primarily, a festival is a platform to sell films that are not meant for the mainstream audience. Cultural exchange is also important…

— Vetrimaaran

I was hesitant to ask around for work, so I did a short film called 'Bulbul,' which was praised a lot by…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

The first thing that strikes a person when it comes to Southern film industries is the hard work, professionalism and the punctuality…

— Abhimanyu Singh

You become trapped doing bad movies. And, the thing that makes it difficult to stop making them is that you get good…

— Sterling Hayden

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

— James Berardinelli

I shattered the notion that a movie had to be advertised with realistic elements from the story.

— Saul Bass