Film Quotes · Page 82

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

— Alex Winter

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

— Willem Dafoe

I was always trying to be a quote, unquote, film composer.

— Henry Mancini

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

— Fred Willard

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

— Werner Herzog

'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain' is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.

— Rajpal Yadav

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

— Nicolas Roeg

I can say that I don't compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.

— Hansika Motwani

Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people…

— Nate Parker

For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a…

— Robert Eggers

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

— James Gray

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the…

— Andrew Sarris

When someone goes to watch my film in the theatre, they won't remember the last four articles they read about me. Instead,…

— Anushka Sharma

Francis Ford Coppola is completely unconventional. He has a strong sense of loyalty. Great eyes. It's a diabolical undertaking in terms of…

— Tom Waits

Definitely the hardest thing is to find time to be grounded with real life, but without it, I don't think I'd be…

— Justin Lin

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

— William H. Macy

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to…

— Lena Dunham

To find money to make a film, you have to write maybe 50 pages to explain what you'd like to do, what…

— Rithy Panh

I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary…

— Todd Haynes

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say…

— Stanley Kubrick

I remember my heart was beating very fast when I had to call him because he's like one of my heroes. But…

— Kate Herron

I would love to win an Oscar one day. That would be a very wonderful thing. But in the meantime, I really…

— Selena Gomez

A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're…

— Donnie Yen

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

— Spike Lee

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

— Eddie Campbell

A filmmaker is in a very vulnerable position when their films are releasing.

— Soni Razdan

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.

— Wes Anderson

It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

— Travis Knight

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

— Ang Lee

I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.

— M. Jayachandran

Every filmmaker has a family to feed. They have children whose college fees need to be paid.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

— Pedro Almodovar

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

— Jacques Rivette

What with 'The Brady Bunch,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Sound of Music,' I have three cults going.

— Nicholas Hammond

If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.

— Michael Giacchino

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

— Sean Durkin

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

— Barry Pepper

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

— Michelangelo Antonioni