Being Quote by Parker Posey

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to…

— W. C. Fields

Sometimes it wasn't even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, "God told me…

— Stephen Kendrick

I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid…

— John Waters

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

— Koushun Takami

I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's Lane, and…

— Nigel Hawthorne

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

— Henny Youngman

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would…

— Laura Moriarty

They said, "You get $2 million to make the film, if you're not in it. If you are in it, you get $5 million…

— Johnny Depp

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by…

— Kevin Brownlow

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it…

— Richard Linklater

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie…

— Joel Coen