There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
~By Werner Herzog ~
I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.
~By Terry Zwigoff ~
You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.
~By Jon Voight ~
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 ~
If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.
~By Al Green ~
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
~By Victoria Abril ~
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
~By Rick Moranis ~
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.
~By Wim Wenders ~
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
~By Leslie Caron ~
When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.
~By Paul Hirsch ~
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
~By Joe Rogan ~
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.
~By Hugh Grant ~
The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.
~By Todd McFarlane ~
Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
~By Liam Neeson ~
It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.
~By Michael Apted ~
I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
~By Carter Burwell ~
With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
~By John Cusack ~
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 ~
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
~By Wim Wenders ~
It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
~By Michael Apted ~
It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.
~By Robert Mayer ~
I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
~By Kel Mitchell ~
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 ~
Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
~By Marta Kristen ~
All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.
~By Helen Mirren ~
I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.
~By Mark Rydell ~
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
~By Ed Wood ~
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.
~By Claude Chabrol ~
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
~By Stephen Fry ~
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
~By Jared Leto ~
Film lovers are sick people.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.
~By Hope Davis ~
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
~By Dario Argento ~
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
~By Dan Aykroyd ~
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 ~
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
~By Val Kilmer ~
I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
~By Audrey Tautou ~
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
~By Simon Pegg ~
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 ~
Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
My private life has nothing to do with my films.
~By Fritz Lang ~
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.
~By Andre braugher ~
The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!
~By Brian Sibley ~
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
~By Christopher Parker ~
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
~By Alex Borstein ~
When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
~By Mike Epps ~
The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
~By Christine Lahti ~
In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
~By Aaliyah ~
I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.
~By David Zucker ~
I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.
~By Justin Guarini ~
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.
~By Sam Mendes ~
The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.
~By Michelle Williams ~
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 ~
I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
~By Robert Conrad ~
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 ~
There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
~By Beatrice Dalle ~
I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
~By Bruce Willis ~
We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
~By Kurtwood Smith ~
Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.
~By Richard Roeper ~
I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.
~By Jay Presson Allen ~
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
Music in this film is a very important part.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.
~By Robin Tunney ~
I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
~By John Cusack ~
In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
~By Edward Albert ~
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
~By Mark Poster ~
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