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 ~
Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
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 ~
Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.
~By David Strathairn ~
What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.
~By Paul Hogan ~
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
~By Otto Schily ~
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
I always approach film as a fan.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.
~By David O. Russell ~
I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.
~By Danny Elfman ~
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
~By Antonio Perez ~
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.
~By Chris Wedge ~
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 ~
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
~By Sally Field ~
Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
~By Ian Hart ~
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
~By Dougray Scott ~
The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
~By Mel Gibson ~
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
~By Mickey Rourke ~
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.
~By Leon de Winter ~
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
~By Dave Rowntree ~
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
~By Eva Green ~
15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
~By George Clooney ~
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
~By Kevin Costner ~
I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.
~By Anil Kapoor ~
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
~By Ken Burns ~
The studio should not have released this film.
~By Joel Siegel ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
~By Julie Harris ~
I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.
~By Ursula Andress ~
You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
~By Johnny Depp ~
We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.
~By Rupert Grint ~
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 ~
The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.
~By Peter Tork ~
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 ~
Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.
~By Debra Wilson ~
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
~By David Selby ~
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
~By George Clooney ~
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.
~By Sean Bean ~
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 ~
Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
~By Carter Burwell ~
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
~By Joel Coen ~
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
~By Jim Coleman ~
It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.
~By Neil LaBute ~
Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.
~By Alex Winter ~
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
~By Beatrice Dalle ~
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 ~
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
~By Jason Patric ~
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
~By Richard Dreyfuss ~
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.
~By Angela Bassett ~
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
~By Marie Windsor ~
It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.
~By Jean-Louis Trintignant ~
There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
~By Claude Chabrol ~
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
~By Clive Owen ~
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
~By Laura Dern ~
If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
~By Nick Nolte ~
Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
~By Dougray Scott ~
I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
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 ~
Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.
~By Danny Elfman ~
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
~By Meg Ryan ~
I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.
~By Milos Forman ~
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
~By Simon Pegg ~
I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
~By Mike Figgis ~
But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
~By Richard Linklater ~
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.
~By Dennis Muren ~
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.
~By David Naughton ~
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
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 ~
For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
~By Alan Cumming ~
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