My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
~By Judd Nelson ~
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
~By Charlton Heston ~
When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.
~By Shirley Knight ~
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
Short films don't go too far.
~By Matthew McGrory ~
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.
~By Lesley Gore ~
I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.
~By Marc Davis ~
It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.
~By Neil Jordan ~
There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
~By Chevy Chase ~
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
~By Randy Harrison ~
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
~By Federico Fellini ~
My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
~By Dougray Scott ~
I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
~By Willem Dafoe ~
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.
~By June Allyson ~
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 ~
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
~By Omar Sharif ~
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.
~By Ray Romano ~
The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.
~By Dario Argento ~
I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
~By Brad Bird ~
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
~By Barry Levinson ~
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
~By David Cronenberg ~
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
~By Claire Danes ~
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
~By Neil Jordan ~
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
~By Dario Argento ~
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
~By Mike Leigh ~
Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.
~By Joan Allen ~
Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
~By Sylvia Sidney ~
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
~By Josh Hartnett ~
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
~By George Clooney ~
I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.
~By Norman Jewison ~
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.
~By Douglas Wood ~
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
~By Louise Brooks ~
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
~By Nina Blackwood ~
You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
~By Vin Diesel ~
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
~By Alex North ~
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
~By Norman McLaren ~
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 ~
It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
~By Don Cheadle ~
So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
~By Fay Wray ~
I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
~By Alain Resnais ~
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.
~By Michael Berryman ~
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.
~By Emily Watson ~
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
~By Julie Harris ~
But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
~By Patricia Clarkson ~
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
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 avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
~By Sean Connery ~
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.
~By Tom Cruise ~
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
~By John Corigliano ~
Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.
~By Gene Shalit ~
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
~By Faye Dunaway ~
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
~By Matthew Modine ~
One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
I never enjoyed working in a film.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
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 ~
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
~By Ikue Mori ~
For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.
~By Rupert Grint ~
Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
~By Abraham Zapruder ~
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
~By Alan Bates ~
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
~By Ethel Merman ~
Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
~By John Singleton ~
Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
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 ~
Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
~By Ed Wood ~
I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
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 ~
But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
~By Karel Reisz ~
I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.
~By Shannyn Sossamon ~
So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.
~By Milos Forman ~
I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
~By Adam Arkin ~
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
~By Robert Altman ~
Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.
~By John Crowley ~
For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.
~By Keir Dullea ~
The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
~By James Woods ~
The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
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