Film Quotes · Page 83

It is important to choose your director and co-stars well.

— Jacqueline Fernandez

I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

— Damian Lewis

Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

— Edward Burns

That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

— Martin Short

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

— Jackie Earle Haley

It's very hard to go to Monument Valley and not think of John Ford's films.

— Janusz Kaminski

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

— Guillaume Canet

'Housefull' is not a 'leave your brains behind' kind of a film. It has a very intelligent screenplay.

— Sajid Khan

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take…

— John Waters

In film, there's always this looking for the 'If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.'

— Nnamdi Asomugha

'Raman Raghav' will break my image of cute boy-next-door. My character in the film is mad, demented, very aggressive. He is a…

— Vicky Kaushal

I want to make movies like 'The Upside of Anger,' 'Maria Full of Grace,' old-school films like 'Some Kind of Wonderful' or…

— Reggie Miller

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something…

— Ricky Martin

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

— Sting

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

— Rufus Sewell

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on…

— Nadine Labaki

I never think of people's nationality too much. I always look at everybody the same. It's impossible for me to just say…

— Vin Diesel

I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for…

— Jared Padalecki

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but…

— Mira Nair

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a…

— Tom Stoppard

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this…

— Famke Janssen

We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling in 'A Place Beyond the Pines,' and that's the first place where…

— Anna Boden

As long as we do good films that people connect with, they will work.

— Nithiin

I don't set out to make a film for festivals abroad.

— Takashi Miike

I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.

— Anoushka Shankar

You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'

— John Williams

I do just a film a year and so have a lot of time.

— Nana Patekar

With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.

— Marc Platt

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

— Robert Redford

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

— Morgan Spurlock

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

— Stanley Kubrick

Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

— Chris Klein

Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.

— Vanessa Kirby

“For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.”

— Jerry White

I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

— Malin Akerman

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

— Richard Linklater

I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.

— Tony Todd

My goal is that my films should at least match up to my previous films if not be more.

— Shefali Shah