The casting of any film is around 60% of the film, but it's also about the right casting insight. It's a bit… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner… — Michael York Copy Share Image
I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
Pressure, to me, was creating a 'Star Wars' film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to… — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone… — Adam West Copy Share Image
Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Stephen King told me a long time ago, when he gave me some advice about the movies. He said to take the… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
James Cameron has always been one of my favorite filmmakers. The first 'Terminator' is such a phenomenal film. It's not just that,… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
The essence of the cinema that I'm interested in is a combination of love, rage, and curiosity. Sometimes it's hard to see… — Pablo Larrain Copy Share Image
I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I don't know where my next movie is going to get financed or if it will. I think every filmmaker is probably… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
I am myself a professional creator of images, a film-maker. And then there are the images made by the artists I collect,… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
This is a good thing to say to film students. If there's a story point that you don't feel right about, that… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I don't want to take shots at professional actors, because obviously the great ones are great. But I do think that given… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I actually took a 3D class, that was offered by the DGA at Sony. They were talking about some of the component… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what… — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I direct as an actor. Many times, I will say, 'Let me try this.' And I'll walk the scene through and see… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
![“For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.” quote by Alden Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/alden-ehrenreich-2752_beatty_for-me-it-was-watching-reds-and-splendor_1341051.jpg)
![“We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.” quote by Leonardo DiCaprio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/266/leonardo-dicaprio-997_bigs_we-were-both-with-russel-crowe-hand-pluc_2916491.jpg)
![“When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.” quote by James Franco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/james-franco-2025_adderall_when-i-read-the-book-the-adderall-diarie_1667680.jpg)
