I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
~By Spike Lee ~
Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
~By Alexis Bledel ~
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
~By Rachel True ~
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
~By Bryan Singer ~
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
~By Dougray Scott ~
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.
~By Guy Hamilton ~
Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.
~By Sandra Bullock ~
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
~By Mike Figgis ~
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.
~By Joe Flanigan ~
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
~By Peter Berg ~
I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
~By Ethel Merman ~
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
~By Sam Neill ~
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.
~By Claudia Christian ~
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
~By Julia Roberts ~
I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
~By Anna Friel ~
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
~By Julie Taymor ~
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.
~By Roger Moore ~
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
~By Richard Roxburgh ~
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.
~By Blair Underwood ~
A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.
~By Tim Reid ~
I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.
~By Tobe Hooper ~
Language is much closer to film than painting is.
~By Sergei Eisenstein ~
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
~By Bruce Bennett ~
After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.
~By Rupert Grint ~
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
~By Frank Capra ~
You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
~By David Cronenberg ~
You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.
~By Herbert Lom ~
I like films to be complete in their written form.
~By Patrice Leconte ~
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
~By Johnnie Ray ~
I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.
~By Julie Harris ~
It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
~By Josh Hartnett ~
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
~By John Pilger ~
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
~By Bill Mumy ~
I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.
~By Michael Biehn ~
You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.
~By Chris Hemsworth ~
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
~By Jacques Rivette ~
I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.
~By Andrea Martin ~
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
~By Norman McLaren ~
European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
~By Walter Salles ~
They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.
~By Ken Burns ~
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
~By George Lucas ~
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
~By Benicio Del Toro ~
First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it.
~By Richard Donner ~
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
~By Wim Wenders ~
We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
~By Dawn French ~
Pain is temporary, film is forever.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.
~By Bille August ~
My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.
~By Tom Felton ~
Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.
~By Dennis Hopper ~
I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.
~By Armand Assante ~
I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
~By Vanessa Brown ~
To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.
~By Dario Argento ~
You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.
~By Matt Robinson ~
As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
~By Harold Ramis ~
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
~By James McAvoy ~
Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.
~By Jami Gertz ~
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
~By Lucy Liu ~
The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
~By Mel Torme ~
But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.
~By Rupert Grint ~
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
~By Cameron Crowe ~
It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.
~By Robert Patrick ~
It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
~By Karl Urban ~
I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film.
~By Gina Gershon ~
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
~By Beau Bridges ~
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.
~By Jennifer Sky ~
I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
~By Colleen Haskell ~
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.
~By Jacques Rivette ~
Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.
~By Devon Sawa ~
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
~By Sam Peckinpah ~
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
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