A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Even when you're acting with a producing hat, when you're in every scene, you're really conscious of trying to make everybody as… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
The critics didn't like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. 'Point… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I'm not really satisfied with the technology today. Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
Maybe because All About Steve is about offbeat people, viewers don't want them to be heroes. There is something archetypal in us… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
Certain things are very important for me while saying 'yes' to a script. One is obviously the role and its importance to… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of. When you're going to commit yourself to a… — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I feel like everybody's waiting for a job y'know, you can make a movie on your phone. And so there really is… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I know 'The Godfather II' there are elements that you can get away with watching without watching the first one, but you… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
We rehearsed for a bit for an Indie film, which is kind of unusual, we had a week of rehearsals before we… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If… — Jenson Button Copy Share Image
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
