But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
~By Richard Linklater ~
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
~By Ang Lee ~
I never enjoyed working in a film.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
~By Billy Wilder ~
I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.
~By Glenn Ford ~
My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.
~By Robert Benton ~
I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
~By Famke Janssen ~
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.
~By Danny Elfman ~
Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
~By Peter Krause ~
Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
~By Peter Bart ~
This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
~By Dennis Farina ~
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
~By Dougray Scott ~
I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.
~By Dennis Muren ~
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
~By Martin Bashir ~
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
~By Michael Caine ~
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
~By Norman McLaren ~
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
~By Marc Newson ~
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 ~
I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.
~By Charlotte Church ~
I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.
~By Amy Weber ~
Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
I've always loved film more than theater.
~By Laura Dern ~
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.
~By Mathieu Kassovitz ~
I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.
~By Michael York ~
There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.
~By Mark Rydell ~
Music is half the film.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.
~By Wes Craven ~
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
~By Vin Diesel ~
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
~By Conrad Hall ~
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
~By Zac Efron ~
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
~By Spike Lee ~
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.
~By Ismail Merchant ~
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
~By Minor White ~
Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
~By Jude Law ~
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
~By Marcel Carne ~
My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
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 ~
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
~By John Hurt ~
I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
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 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'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
~By Frederick Wiseman ~
I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
~By Karel Reisz ~
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 ~
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
~By Joel Coen ~
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
~By Donal Logue ~
The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
~By Bruce Willis ~
As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.
~By Tom Felton ~
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.
~By Renny Harlin ~
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~
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 ~
The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
~By Sean Astin ~
For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.
~By Devon Sawa ~
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
~By Fay Wray ~
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
~By Dino De Laurentiis ~
So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.
~By Tom Felton ~
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
~By Lee Grant ~
Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.
~By Rihanna ~
One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.
~By Rupert Grint ~
I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.
~By Roger Spottiswoode ~
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
~By Lennart Meri ~
The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
~By Walter Salles ~
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
~By Julie Andrews ~
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.
~By Mary Hansen ~
I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
~By Melvin Van Peebles ~
They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.
~By Julie Christie ~
TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
~By Louise Brooks ~
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
~By M. Night Shyamalan ~
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
~By John Cusack ~
I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.
~By Peter Jackson ~
My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
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