Because I fell in love with the idea of films early on, not because I was in the milieu, but moreso because… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty.… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The biggest secret weapon we had in regards to really being true to this part of the world, and making sure this… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations… — Alex Hammond Copy Share Image
All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The only distinction I'd make is between film and telly, I guess. "Film," "movies," and "cinema" are all synonyms as far as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
Yeah as the director I consider myself to be the coach, and my actors are my players. So I have to show… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Movies aren't normally, necessarily viewed by a community of fans, and we thought if we could take the energy we see at… — Sal Vulcano Copy Share Image
When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
I think that cinema is a great place to make stories of loneliness. And being Norwegian, I don't want to make the… — Joachim Trier Copy Share Image
The main thing for me is just the length of time it takes to make a movie. It's at least a year… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The vampire or the bad guy, that's what people do remember. Lars von Trier, like Guy Maddin, their films are made for… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job,… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have… — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
There was a film which I did many, many, many years ago which took 14 years to make. Fourteen years. It was… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
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