Cinema Quote by Brian Helgeland

Trying to film a movie on a diet is hard enough, I can't imagine how it would be on drugs.

— Amber Heard

Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do.…

— Jodie Foster

I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera Sellotaped to…

— Alan Carr

I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say "Oh, OK,…

— Annette Bening

I think when you're trying to get a film together that's had a long gustation process before I came on board and was trying…

— Todd Haynes

I have learned to do what I want without hurting anyone. I've learned how to get away with it, with everything. I'm getting away…

— Nadine Labaki

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget…

— Eriq La Salle

I was trying to get into the film industry in Mexico and nobody was letting me in. I was looked down upon as a…

— Melissa Barrera

In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult…

— John Waters

I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don't know if it would ultimately be worth it. The sort…

— Derren Brown

Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically…

— Nicholas Sparks

“There is no end to writing, I think, no end to the project of rescue." --Sofia Samatar, from "Fallow," in her collection, Tender”

— Sofia Samatar

“From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law school after…

— Lorrie Moore

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

— Samuel Johnson

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

— Carlos Fuentes