There are times through the process that you just think, "Is this all worth it?" It's very, very difficult to get a… — Paul Wernick Copy Share Image
I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you!… — Antonia Quirke Copy Share Image
There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart… — David Small Copy Share Image
Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
It's advice I always give to directors when they're starting out: Take an acting class to really see what it feels like… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves;… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
I started working with James [Schamus] early on, and my role as an executive producer was more about being involved in the… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think with every character I get, there's an approach that's appropriate. I feel like my own job is to interpret what… — Keith Stanfield Copy Share Image
When you have an intimate encounter with mortality as my family and I did with my mom's death, I took a long… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
It's one of the reasons why Spider-Man: Homecoming is so exciting. Because it's a new genre for us, a new character, the… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
If I ever thought of directing again, I mean - I don't know, even the idea of directing a film is a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I… — Don Coscarelli Copy Share Image
I try to find some sort of meditative hobby to do on set, and it's different for every film. There's a lot… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“When Walt became all wrapped up in the theme parks and live-action films, we tried to get him interested in animation again,"… — Charles Solomon Copy Share Image
Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time,… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package… — Roone Arledge Copy Share Image
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