I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth,… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around… — Austin Peck Copy Share Image
[Allied] got the attention of (director) Bob Zemeckis and Marion Cotillard. I'm glad I waited. If it had been made 15 years… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a… — Barbara Hammer Copy Share Image
I think everyone loves 'The Departed.' That was a movie that had a lot of problems structurally. And we had to battle… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
When I found out that I'm playing Nagini, I thought it was meaningful because it's an important character in the 'Harry Potter'… — Claudia Kim Copy Share Image
Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
With action in Hollywood, a choreographer will be hired to design an amazing fight, with all these cool little narrative bits, such… — Joey Ansah Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Certainly with stage, as I'm remembering, you don't get to spend any time at home. With film, you might do three, four… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
There's a feeling of despair for some, but that's not what we wanted. Because the whole movie is without dialogue, it's more… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
Maybe there is a sort of a sweet middle ground there, where you can do something with something with like 20 to… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how exciting it was, because Vincent Price had made a huge impression on me when I was a… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone… — Shane Meadows Copy Share Image
Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Being a star son, everywhere I would go the first question that I would face was When is your debut?' I guess… — Akhil Akkineni Copy Share Image
If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
We've been working for four years on a musical called 'Annette' and we met the French director Leos Carax at the Cannes… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past… — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts… — Nathaniel Dorsky Copy Share Image
We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room]… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade,… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image