Films Quotes

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I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home. — W.C. Fields
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of good and evil… — J. J. Abrams
There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow because they aren't… — J. J. Abrams
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. — Mackenzie Astin
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead. — Shirley Knight
I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've… — William Mapother
I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out. — Loretta Devine
Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in… — Bob Uecker
I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that -… — Gary Numan
You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in… — Anna Paquin
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live… — Don Bluth
It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films… — Terry Pratchett
I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I… — Woody Allen
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success… — Woody Allen
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who… — Emmanuelle Beart
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films. — Lars von Trier
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. — Ingmar Bergman
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life… — Bernardo Bertolucci
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically,… — Bernardo Bertolucci
As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films. — Paul Thomas Anderson
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and… — Paul Thomas Anderson
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover… — Brian De Palma
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists… — Oliver Stone
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet

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