Film Quotes · Page 618

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

— Julia Stiles

What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were…

— Rachel McAdams

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully…

— Amruta Khanvilkar

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.

— Tibor Fischer

Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They…

— Fede Alvarez

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

— Norman Jewison

Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it's going…

— Marc Platt

The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical…

— Woody Allen

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart…

— Jonathan Tropper

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's…

— Joseph Kosinski

Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed…

— Elvis Mitchell

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture…

— Jools Holland

Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have…

— Takashi Miike

From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came…

— Raoul Peck

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine…

— Walter Murch

Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front…

— Christopher Abbott

I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise,…

— Louis Garrel

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own…

— Ingmar Bergman

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

— Cameron Diaz

Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.

— Ornella Muti

Filmmaking involves a lot of money and hard work, which should not be wasted, though nobody knows which film will be a…

— Hema Malini

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you…

— Robert Eggers

Each experience has offered something different in regards to story. I really didn't want to do any more sports films. And then,…

— Omar Epps

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

— Robert Duvall

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking…

— Anthony Minghella

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like,…

— Trey Parker

I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music…

— Mike Patton

Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to…

— Jonathan Rosenbaum

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

— Griffin Dunne

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At…

— Frederick Lenz

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And…

— Tim Matheson

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the…

— Haile Gerima

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted…

— Rod Serling

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

— John Travolta

We shoot in film. This means that we're making our movie during the shooting and not in post-production.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

— Will Smith

When I was making short films for the TV show 'Naalaya Iyakunar,' I wasn't just competing but making films that I could…

— Karthik Subbaraj

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

— Audrey Tautou