Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Looking through a child's eyes and knowing this was another planet, we decided to design the machines with eyes and bodies like… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
Film and TV is a very hard profession to enter into if you don't have the ability to take a long period… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
I can't complain about anything. It's like saying, "I don't like talkies." Time marches on and I don't care how people watch… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“If you think that you can hide what your interests are, what your prurient interests are, what your noble interests are, what… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it,… — Jack Huston Copy Share Image
A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood… — John Schneider Copy Share Image
So, as opposed to getting people in to read the script and read scenes with me, what I wanted to do was… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person,… — Tahyna Tozzi Copy Share Image
I mean, there's obviously only one Leo [DiCaprio] but I look at guys like Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise and think I'd… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We lack good film scriptwriters. People like Anjan Chowdhury who could develop scripts of pure entertainers are quite difficult to find now.… — Prosenjit Chatterjee Copy Share Image
I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha.… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
The only time you do not get nervous is when you are making your first film. At that time, just the joy… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
You can do a good movie, or you can do a good movie that can help people to feel the idea of… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they… — Mohammed Saeed Harib Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
I like my role in 'Akira,' which is a remake of a south Indian film. I play the role of a pregnant… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image