Film Quotes · Page 612

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I…

— Roland Emmerich

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because…

— Berenice Bejo

It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

— John Lee Hancock

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they…

— Joe Dante

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful…

— Alain de Botton

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict…

— Rob Brezsny

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you…

— David Slade

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on…

— Michael Nyqvist

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women…

— Sally Field

I was really, really, really nervous when I got this role because I did feel it was important to make Alice [Cullen]…

— Ashley Greene

Otherwise you have to repeat a lot when you're filming. And I've seen the film and it's in a border town in…

— Werner Herzog

It is still harder all around for women to get funding in business and film. There are only a very small group…

— Julie Smolyansky

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their…

— Barbara Demick

I don't know what to say to people. It's become so big. It's become part of the cultural environment. For the first…

— Robert Pattinson

I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in…

— Joe Swanberg

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because…

— Edwin Catmull

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's…

— Tanith Lee

If I had used real names, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' would have ever seen the light of day because it was…

— Shoojit Sircar

When I'm choosing films to work on, the first question I ask myself is, does this story stir my passion?

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can…

— M. Night Shyamalan

You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a…

— Jim Sturgess

I do think there are more people who would probably related to my movies and who aren't aware of them.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and…

— William Boyd

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of…

— Brooke Shields

I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five…

— Ajith Kumar

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

— Bob Bergen

It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn…

— Marc Platt

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding…

— Benjamin Avila

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

'Paruthiveeran' was a difficult film to work on. It was my first film but a very strong character.

— Karthi

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

— Janusz Kaminski

Shaheed' was the first film to win three National Awards. I was the first writer to get the award for story writing.

— Manoj Kumar

I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

— Harmony Korine

Just based on my own family and background, I would not be in a film that would exploit or sensationalize anyone.

— Lydia Hearst

I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.

— David Lowery

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come…

— Stephen Frears

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

— Lana Del Rey

At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.

— Edwin Catmull