Familiar Quote by Nicolas Roeg

Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put…

— Roger Ebert

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

— Vince Vaughn

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of…

— Alan Parker

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

— Christopher Nolan

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

— Christian Keiber

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making…

— Jeff Baena

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and…

— Josh Radnor

As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Films that take place in the past reproduce the aesthetics of the past. I question the aesthetics of the past.

— RaMell Ross

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified…

— John Milius

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the…

— Olivia Colman

It's really good and it really differentiates. If you think you know the film, you're about to see it again in a way that…

— Billy Zane