Quotes and Sayings about Film
"I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Disney, Film)
"With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?"
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Music, Film, Literature, Words)
"The difficulty is capturing surprise on film."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Difficulty, Film)
"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dancing, Film)
"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work, Dancing, Pain)
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Film, Luck)
"When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Family, Film)
"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Courage, Determination, Freedom, Struggle)
"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
- Robert Adams
(Related: Film, Night, Sleep)
"I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Act, Want)
"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Being, Film)
"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Work, People, Film, Focus, Television)
"Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Successful, Being, Company, Film, Talk)
"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Fact, Film, Reading, Theatre)
"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Film, Saying)
"To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Hope, Energy, Waiting)
"But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Care, Film, Man, Needs, Woman)
"I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West."
- Moustapha Akkad
(Related: People, Islam, Film)
"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."
- Edward Albert
(Related: Age, Work, Career, Countries, Film, Months)
"I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films."
- Robert Aldrich
(Related: Life, Film, Violence)
"I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Film, Focus)
"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."
- Tatyana Ali
(Related: Idea, Being)
"I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first."
- Jay Presson Allen
(Related: Sex, Film, First)
"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."
- Joan Allen
(Related: Opportunity, Film, Open, Profession, Thinking)
"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Profit, Right)
"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Job)
"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."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music, Wealth, Excitement, Film, Fun)
"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Emotion, Film, First, Tenderness)
"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Film)
"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Challenge, Film, Sense, Want)
"I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Change, Time, Maturity)
"Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Humor, People, Values, Chance, Emotions)
"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Chance)
"It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Film)
"An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Awards)
"Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Actor, Film, First)
"Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Fun, Hollywood, Want)
"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Film, Property)
"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."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Being, Film, Focus, Television, Want, Years)
"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
- Ursula Andress
(Related: Hate)
"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."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Music, Film, Lady, Respect, Sound)
"I've made several films that haven't been shown."
- Kenneth Anger
"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
- Kenneth Anger
(Related: Film, Speech)
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: Film)
"The financing of my films has always been international."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
"There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: Idea, Film, Football, Literature, Nation, Today)
"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: American, Film, Fire, Personality, Production, Quest, Style)
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
- David Antin
(Related: Poems)
"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Actors, Film, Space)
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Film, Want)
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Being, Difference, Film, Mind, Result)
"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."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Conscience, Fighting, Freedom, Problems, Sense, Sin, Trying)
"Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood."
- R. W. Apple, Jr.
(Related: War, Conflict, Hollywood, Training, World, World war)
"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."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Quality, Film, Now, Obvious, Will)
"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."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Imagination, Talent, Skill, Today)
"I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see."
- Michael Apted
"For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Change, Technology, Film)
"On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film."
- Avi Arad
(Related: Being, Film, First)
"There's nothing gratuitous about my films."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Nothing)
"Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will."
- Dario Argento
(Related: History, Work, Thought, Audiences, Film, Will)
"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."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Experience, Life, Work, Film)
"The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Love, Hope, Film, Opera)
"I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Man, Problems, Woman)
"But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place."
- Dario Argento
(Related: First, Right)
"But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly."
- Dario Argento
"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Money, Film)
"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Soul)
"I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story."
- Dario Argento
"If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Time, Bizarre, Film, Right, Struggle)
"It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad."
- Dario Argento
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Film, Mind)
"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."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Money, Content, Film, Pressure)
"When I was five. That's when I started to love film."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Love, Film)
"What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Film)
"I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Fact, Film, Pretty)
"It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: People, Film, News)
"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: Money, People, Bank account, Fact, Tomorrow)
"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Film, First, canal)
"Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion."
- Malcolm Arnold
(Related: Family, Music, Wife, End, Film, Passion, Writing)
"At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: End, Film, Hunger)
"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Mind, Theater)
"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."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: People, Fear, Amusement, Film)
"I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Night, Office, Sleep)
"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."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Hope)
"I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: God)
"I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Art, Music, Dance, Film, Trying)
"The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked."
- David Arquette
(Related: Film, First, Horror, Theatre)
"Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Men, Film, Girls, Man, Want)
"I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do."
- Gemma Arterton
(Related: Work, Life, People, Respect, Want)
"I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films."
- Shawn Ashmore
"I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Work, Theater, Years)
"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Film, Hollywood)
"United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?"
- John Astin
(Related: Idea, Artists, Songs, United)
"I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing."
- Mackenzie Astin
(Related: Time, Writing)
"The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook."
- Sean Astin
(Related: Work)
"It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character."
- Rowan Atkinson
(Related: Character, Difficulty, Film)
"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Film)
"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: People, Performance, Film, Hesitation)
"I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: People, Film, Insult, Talking)
"She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film."
- Bille August
(Related: People, Beginning, Film)
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
- Bille August
(Related: Idea, Beginning, Film)
"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."
- Bille August
(Related: Finance, Money, Film, Television)
"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."
- Bille August
(Related: Film)
"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
- Bille August
(Related: Movies, Film, Television)
"You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one."
- Paul Auster
(Related: Books)
"I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films."
- Paul Auster
(Related: Life, Thought, Film)
"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."
- Dan Aykroyd
(Related: Mother, Ships)
"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."
- Jillian Bach
(Related: Actor, Film, Television, Theater)
"I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Film, Worry)
"I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Movies, Film, Kids, Name)
"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."
- John Badham
(Related: Production, Years)
"Film has to describe and show."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Film)
"I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Now)
"You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker."
- Ralph Bakshi
"One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Design, Animation, Disney)
"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Animation, Film)
"My good films were independent and my bad films were not."
- Ralph Bakshi
"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Music, Actions, Emotions)
"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."
- John Baldacci
(Related: Architecture, Design, Music, Economy, Engineering, Interest, Now, Software, Theatre)
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Character, Hope, Difference, Ethics, Film, Obsession, Saying, Will)
"When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Character, Film)
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Actor, Film)
"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, English, Film, Months)
"I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head."
- Antonio Banderas
(Related: Artist, Being, Film, Poker, Risk)
"By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films."
- Iain Banks
(Related: Books)
"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."
- Iain Banks
(Related: People, Film, Writer)
"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Intelligence, Work, Film, Humanity, Want)
"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Film)
"In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy."
- Adrienne Barbeau
(Related: Women, Horror, Jeopardy)
"When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do."
- Adrienne Barbeau
(Related: Life, Hope, Chance, Film, Fun, Living, Smile)
"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."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Love, Impression, Man)
"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Acting, Film)
"My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Soul, Want)
"Film-making was not at all what I had expected."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Film)
"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Women)
"They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Country, Europe, Killing, Laws, Pretty, World)
"A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: People, Photography, Want)
"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Film, Want, Writing)
"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."
- Ethel Barrymore
(Related: Difference)
"Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Investment, Production, Will)
"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."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Love, Now)
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Books, Culture, Meaning, News, Repetition)
"The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Opportunity, Achievement, Film)
"We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Life, Appearance, Film)
"I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Life, Facts, Film)
"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."
- Angela Bassett
(Related: Thought, Company, Film, Pretty)
"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."
- Alan Bates
(Related: People, Film, Public)
"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Love, Friendship, Negative, Film, Relationships, Talk)
"Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Enjoyment, Space)
"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."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Film, School)
"I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Care, Detail, Film, Passion)
"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Film, Moon, News)
"006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Friendship, Character, Film, Journey, Wrong)
"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
- Kabir Bedi
(Related: Film, Right)
"You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry."
- Kabir Bedi
(Related: Film, Friends)
"I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film."
- Kabir Bedi
(Related: Time, Cinema, Faces, Film, Present, Want, Will)
"I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada."
- Samantha Bee
(Related: Canada, Film, Television)
"For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it."
- Camilla Belle
(Related: Building, End, Film, Nothing)
"When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: American, Film, World)
"The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Difference, Film, Stars)
"I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Being, Career, Film)
"Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Film, Formula)
"Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Office)
"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."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: History, Work, Thought, Being, Cinema, Content, Film, Pretty)
"Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Business, Being, Film, Hollywood, Thinking, Today)
"Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?""
- Annette Bening
(Related: Love, People, Fact, Now, Old, Right, Woman)
"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
- Andre Benjamin
(Related: Film)
"It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places."
- Richard Benjamin
(Related: People, Character)
"My films are about embarrassment."
- Alan Bennett
(Related: Embarrassment)
"I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films."
- Bruce Bennett
"I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference."
- Jill Bennett
(Related: People, Hope, Day, Difference, Gay, Projects, Want, Will)
"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."
- Robert Benton
(Related: Film, Right, Want)
"I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Difference, Night)
"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Life, Film, Intentions)
"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."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Film)
"In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Music, Film, Opera)
"In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Finance, Government)
"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."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Experience, Thought, Idea, Performance, Opera, Theatre)
"At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films."
- Bruce Beresford
"He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Wrong)
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Film, Moments)
"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."
- Peter Berg
(Related: Truth, America, Film, Pretty, Voting)
"I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Age, People, Film)
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
- Ingmar Bergman
(Related: Art, Music, Feelings, Dream, Conscience, Deep, Film)
"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: People, Talk, Want)
"I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing."
- Xander Berkeley
(Related: Want, Writing)
"I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too."
- Elizabeth Berkley
(Related: Work, Reason, Theater)
"Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent."
- Gael Garcia Bernal
(Related: Time, Faith, Act, America, Waste)
"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
- Elmer Bernstein
(Related: Feelings, Alienation, Today)
"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
- Elmer Bernstein
(Related: Film, Today)
"I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions."
- Elmer Bernstein
(Related: Car, Emotions, Film, Years)
"I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave."
- Claude Berri
(Related: People, Theater)
"Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them."
- Daniel Berrigan
(Related: Actors, Trying)
"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."
- Halle Berry
(Related: Art, Today)
"It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot."
- Michael Berryman
(Related: Change, People, Old, School)
"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."
- Michael Berryman
(Related: Art, Movies, Honesty, Film)
"I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those."
- Bernardo Bertolucci
(Related: Care, Film, Office, Post)
"We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted."
- Ahmed Best
(Related: Art, Music, Film)
"In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent."
- Paul Bettany
(Related: Opportunity, America, Budgets, Europe, Purity)
"I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to."
- Paul Bettany
(Related: Time, Doubt, Open, Saying)
"I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for."
- Michael Biehn
(Related: People, Care, Film, Play)
"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."
- Michael Biehn
(Related: Experience, Decisions, Writing)
"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Film, Painting)
"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Film, First)
"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Action, Conscience, Film, Realism)
"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."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: War, Film, World)
"Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Courage, Film, Force, Heroism)
"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Art, People, Film, Numbers, Painting)
"Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Thought, American, Film)
"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Soul, Action, Battle, Endurance, Hunger, Memories, Nobility, Starvation)
"Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Work, Artist, Body, Fact, Theatre)
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Sense, Wonder)
"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Time, Audiences, Comedy, May, Months)
"I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Dream)
"Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Film, Want)
"Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Thought, Now, Sisters)
"But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Film, Intuition, Mystery, Trying)
"And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Culture, Now, Popular, Pretty, Right)
"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."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Family, Wife, Film, Kids, Moments, Sleep)
"We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Success, People, Hope, Audiences, Want)
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
- Jane Birkin
(Related: Mother, Film)
"I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Business, Time, People, Film, Nothing)
"I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Love, Obsession)
"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."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Work, Film, Old)
"This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Business, America, Audiences, Cinema, Europe, Film, Sexuality, Theatre)
"Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Adventure, Film, Result)
"I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time."
- Nina Blackwood
(Related: Time, Film)
"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: People, Concern, Film, Trying)
"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."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Movies, Film, School, Thinking, Want)
"Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Work, People, Film)
"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Hollywood, Listening)
"I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Love, Lies, London, Secrets, Theater)
"I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Film)
"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Thought, Attention, Film, Lies, Secrets)
"Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it."
- Claire Bloom
(Related: Money, Film, Now)
"I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Film)
"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Movies, Film, Responsibility)
"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."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Trust, Work, Environment, Film)
"I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Time, Life, Character, Thinking)
"Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Cinema, Earth, Fantasy, Film, First, Journey, Will)
"Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Work, Film)
"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Music, Work, Sex, People, Action, Selling, Film, Marketing, Running)
"Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Film)
"If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Funny, Humor, Character, Film)
"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Power, Opportunity, Ideas, Film)
"Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Being, Communication, Film, Television, Understanding, Words)
"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."
- Peter Bogdanovich
(Related: Movies, People, Film, Grammar, Pretty, Sense)
"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."
- Eric Bogosian
(Related: Film, Play, Popular, Talk)
"House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights."
- Uwe Boll
(Related: Film, First, Rights, Influence)
"Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today."
- Uwe Boll
(Related: Movies, Film, Horror, Today)
"The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium."
- Joseph Bologna
(Related: Film)
"I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Art, Beauty, Love, Building, Career, Desire, Film)
"I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Film, Media, Now, Writing)
"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."
- Jan de Bont
(Related: Film, First)
"This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting."
- Jan de Bont
(Related: Challenge, Film)
"I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work."
- Jan de Bont
(Related: Work, Action, Film)
"It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film."
- John Boorman
(Related: People, Being, Film, Manipulation)
"I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak."
- David Boreanaz
(Related: Entertainment, Now, Right, Want, Will)
"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"
- Martin Bormann
(Related: Death, Life, Work, Music, Books, Man, Names)
"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."
- Alex Borstein
(Related: People, Acting, Film, Fun, Project, Television)
"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."
- Kate Bosworth
(Related: Life, Job)
"The other day a friend called and told me they made a porn film using the title of my first movie. I guess you know you've made it when there's a porn parody of a movie you've done."
- Kate Bosworth
(Related: Friend, Day, Film, First)
"The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day."
- Timothy Bottoms
(Related: Time, Crisis, Day, Film)
"Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film."
- Timothy Bottoms
(Related: Policy, Film, Talking)
"A lot of feature films do two pages a day."
- Timothy Bottoms
(Related: Day)
"It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'."
- Danny Boyle
(Related: Life, Popular)
"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."
- Susan Boyle
(Related: Attention, Brothers, Film, Friends, Sisters, Stairs, Support)
"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
- Lorraine Bracco
(Related: Mother, Thought, Being, Film)
"I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Cinema, Film, Want, Will, Word)
"I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks."
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: People, Film)
"I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open."
- Benjamin Bratt
(Related: Work, Actor, Film, Mind, Open, Options, Television)
"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."
- Andre braugher
(Related: Time, People, Day, Film, Question, Television)
"I'm always a fan of a good horror film."
- Andre Braugher
(Related: Film, Horror)
"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Will)
"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Life, Film, First, Flowers, Living, Order, Water)
"I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films."
- Jeremy Brett
(Related: Money, People, Giving)
"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."
- Beau Bridges
(Related: Wisdom, Americans, Native Americans, Respect)
"I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer."
- Beau Bridges
(Related: Film, Kids, Man)
"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: Dad, Work, Fun, Play)
"I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: Art, Film, Theory, Universe)
"I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: Ideas, First)
"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."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: Clothes, Illusion, Light, Magic, Want)
"I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies."
- Poppy Z. Brite
(Related: Movies, Effect, Fiction, Film, Hollywood, Horror, Writers)
"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."
- Morgan Brittany
(Related: Movies, Trying)
"It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you."
- Jim Broadbent
(Related: Funny, English, Film, Help, Old)
"War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult."
- Adrien Brody
(Related: War, Film, Safety)
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Film, Want)
"I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Action, Film, Relax, Sleep)
"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."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Art, Soul, Thought, Body, Isolation)
"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Career, Film, Occupation, World)
"My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images."
- James Broughton
(Related: Poetry)
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
- James Broughton
(Related: Poems, Writing)
"The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Film, Planning)
"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."
- Vanessa Brown
(Related: Love, Movies, Music, War, Film)
"So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in."
- Vanessa Brown
(Related: Music, Film)
"We know as filmmakers where you draw the line."
- Jerry Bruckheimer
"Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Home, Film, July, Will)
"Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Character, Blind, Fact, Film, Internet, Project, Will)
"I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Hope, Film, Television, Theatre)
"I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable."
- Sandra Bullock
"We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world."
- Bernhard von Bulow
(Related: Freedom, World)
"In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it."
- Brooke Burke
(Related: Countries, states, United)
"Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Work, People, Film)
"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Music, Content, Film)
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Day, Jazz, Reading)
"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Fault, Film, Want)
"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Daughter, Children, Film, First)
"I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities."
- Ken Burns
(Related: People, Democracy, Film, Future, Jazz, Possibilities)
"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Film, Style)
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Focus, Heroes)
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
- Ken Burns
(Related: Americans, Film, Sense)
"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Music, Emotions, End)
"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."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Work, Performance, Being, Expectations, Film, Years)
"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Movies, Truth, Drama, Hollywood, Past)
"It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing."
- Steve Burns
(Related: Love, Time, Hope, Film, Kids, Theater, Will, Writing)
"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."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Change, Money, Film, Years)
"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."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Work, Children, Film, Killing, Now, Want)
"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Son, Film, Now)
"Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Film, Want)
"She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Film, First, Mind)
"It's a sin to have your films not to make money."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Money, Sin)
"I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Science, Time, Day, Fiction, Film)
"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Film, First)
"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."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Work, People, Film)
"Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music, Film)
"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Connection, Film, Media)
"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Death, Humor, Life, Film, Sense, Taste)
"Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Film, Sound, Voice)
"I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Projects)
"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music, Film, Listening, Wrong)
"Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Hope, Career)
"What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Time, Film, Space)
"They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Prison)
"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Beginning, Being, Film, Question)
"All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: People, Ideas, Vision, Brothers, Film, Want)
"I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role."
- Gerard Butler
(Related: Fact, June, Months, October, Singing)
"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."
- Gerard Butler
(Related: Film)
"The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you."
- Gabriel Byrne
(Related: People, Will)
"I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film."
- Dean Cain
(Related: Money, Film, Fun)
"I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Love, America, Americans, Film, Foreigners)
"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."
- Simon Callow
(Related: Film, Years)
"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
- James Cameron
(Related: Business, Film)
"The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer."
- James Cameron
(Related: People, Film, Saying)
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
- James Cameron
(Related: Sense)
"If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad."
- James Cameron
(Related: Time, Film, Right)
"The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern."
- James Cameron
"People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all."
- Neve Campbell
(Related: Love, People)
"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself."
- Neve Campbell
(Related: Funny, Film, Horror)
"I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset."
- Neve Campbell
(Related: People, Film, Horror)
"I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films."
- Neve Campbell
"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them."
- Trishelle Cannatella
(Related: Film, Horror, Meeting, Now, Pretty, Reading, Right, Television, Yesterday)
"I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?"
- Dyan Cannon
(Related: Thought, Film, Greece, Questions, Trying)
"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
- Frank Capra
(Related: Advice, Film)
"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."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Art, Courage, Eyes, Film, May, Profession)
"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Music, Film, Mathematics)
"I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want."
- Robert Carlyle
(Related: Change, Love, Work, Character, Film, Play, Sound, Want)
"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
- Marcel Carne
(Related: Film)
"When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Thought, Career)
"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Film, First, Present)
"I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Love, Cinema, Film)
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Film, Regret)
"One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you."
- John Carpenter
(Related: Money, Career, Film, Holidays, Horror)
"It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture."
- John Carpenter
(Related: Business, Time, Horror, Tongue)
"In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum."
- John Carpenter
(Related: England, Germany, Horror)
"Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film."
- David Carradine
(Related: Love, Film)
"And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot."
- Keith Carradine
(Related: Love, Work, Day, Hard work)
"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Money, Books, Decisions, Rights, Wrong)
"That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses."
- Helena Bonham Carter
"Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Character, Feeling, Nagging)
"Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Confidence, Film)
"You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Fight, Perceptions)
"You want to see women your own age in films."
- Lynda Carter
(Related: Age, Women, Want)
"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."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: EnglEnvironment, Film, states, Theatre)
"If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: Work, Genius, Vision, Film, Mediocrity, Will, Worth)
"I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: Actor, Film, Theater)
"The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: Women, Film, Theatre)
"I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it."
- James Caviezel
(Related: Film)
"A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'"
- Jim Caviezel
(Related: Film, Woman)
"I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me."
- Jim Caviezel
(Related: Business, People, Film)
"Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Content, Film, May)
"We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months."
- Lacey Chabert
(Related: London, Months, Space)
"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Divorce, Film)
"I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people."
- Claude Chabrol
(Related: People, Film)
"I brought the film like a flower to the world."
- Claude Chabrol
(Related: Film, World)
"As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing."
- Claude Chabrol
(Related: Change, Nothing)
"I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control."
- Claude Chabrol
(Related: Control, Colors, Film)
"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."
- Claude Chabrol
(Related: Money, People, Hate)
"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
- Sarah Chalke
(Related: Film)
"I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it."
- Geraldine Chaplin
(Related: Love, Acting, Now)
"I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Film)
"There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Family, Writing)
"Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming."
- Chevy Chase
"We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change."
- Don Cheadle
(Related: Change, Being)
"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."
- Don Cheadle
(Related: People, Film, Theatre, Want)
"The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet."
- Joan Chen
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Opportunity, Actors, Want)
"I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: People, Chance, Confidence, Film)
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Being, Film, Hate)
"I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Movies, Quality, People, Acting, Actor, Personality, Talk, Want)
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Film, Fun, Horror)
"When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Life, Body, Emotion, Film)
"This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Confidence, Ruin, Want)
"When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Actors, Emotions, Environment, Film, Play, Voice)
"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."
- Claudia Christian
"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Politics, Now, Regret)
"I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Love, Business, People, Advertising, Film, Integrity)
"There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky."
- Julie Christie
"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."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Women, Heaven)
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Charlotte Church
(Related: Character, Film, Play)
"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Work, Time, Film)
"I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great."
- Stanley Clarke
(Related: People, Film, Past, Years)
"Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head."
- Stanley Clarke
(Related: Music, Film)
"The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Work, Majority)
"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: People, Luxury)
"I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Film, Intimacy)
"People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: People)
"You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it."
- Les Claypool
(Related: Favorite, Film)
"Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!"
- John Cleese
(Related: Film)
"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."
- George Clooney
(Related: Time, Idea, Character, Film, Suffering)
"There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on."
- George Clooney
(Related: God, Actors, Film, Order, Reality, Theater)
"You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk."
- George Clooney
(Related: Film, First, Talk)
"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."
- George Clooney
(Related: Weekend, Will)
"I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film."
- George Clooney
(Related: Actor, Drinking, Film, Training, Years)
"It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Control, Name, Names, Worry)
"I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Wife, Thought)
"We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Home, Wife, Day, Film, Night)
"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Thought, Film)
"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Art, Film, Will)
"I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work."
- Joel Coen
(Related: Work, Day, Film)
"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."
- Joel Coen
(Related: Home, Time, Film, First, Open, Want)
"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."
- Joel Coen
(Related: Funny, Hope, Careers)
"No two directors make the same film the same way."
- Rob Cohen
(Related: Film)
"It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question."
- Arthur Cohn
(Related: Success, Nothing, Question)
"To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it."
- Arthur Cohn
(Related: America, Film, Nothing)
"When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more."
- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Movies, Work, Film, May, Succeed)
"I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Music, Truth, Film)
"I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Time, Film, School)
"But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Self)
"I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Love, Acting, Care, Television, Theater)
"Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film."
- Phil Collins
(Related: Time, Film, Nothing, Now, Project)
"I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus."
- Robbie Coltrane
(Related: Love, Focus, World)
"Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: Thought, Diaries, Water)
"With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts."
- Bruce Conner
(Related: Artist, Being)
"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."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Character, Care, Interest)
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
- Robert Conrad
(Related: Film, Man)
"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."
- Robert Conrad
(Related: Control, Ego, Film, Meeting)
"Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun."
- Steve Coogan
(Related: Actors, Film, Fun, Integrity)
"On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap."
- Barbara Cook
(Related: Dance, Film, Military)
"Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on."
- Chris Cooper
(Related: Film, Goodness, Theater, Years)
"So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things."
- Jackie Cooper
(Related: Acting, Film, Mistakes)
"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Film, Vietnam)
"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."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Cinema, Film, World)
"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Famous, Film, Now)
"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Film, World)
"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Movies, People, Cinema, Film, Magic)
"Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic."
- Sofia Coppola
(Related: Family, Business, Film)
"A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor."
- Sofia Coppola
(Related: Dad, Movies, Ideas, Film)
"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
- John Corigliano
(Related: Challenge, Composers, Film, Projects, Thinking)
"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
- John Corigliano
(Related: Composers, Film, Respect)
"Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot."
- Roger Corman
(Related: Money, Film, Saying, Writers)
"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
- Roger Corman
(Related: Film, Today)
"One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work."
- Roger Corman
(Related: Work, End, Film)
"Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!"
- Roger Corman
(Related: Art, Fact)
"One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Film, Responsibility)
"When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Home, Love, Movies, Choices, Day, Film, Kids, Months, Want)
"I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Movies)
"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."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Movies, Life, Reason, Want)
"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Work, Actor, Being, Care)
"The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor."
- Tom Courtenay
(Related: Business, Actor, Film, Stars)
"Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film."
- Alex Cox
(Related: Film)
"I'd love to make another film in Mexico."
- Alex Cox
(Related: Love, Film)
"No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well."
- Alex Cox
(Related: Film)
"Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist."
- Alex Cox
(Related: Time, Film, State, Style)
"Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job."
- Nikki Cox
(Related: Care, Job)
"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."
- Wes Craven
(Related: Horror)
"The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Fear, Communication, Study)
"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."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Film, Fun)
"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."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Philosophy)
"The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Movies, Film, Television)
"I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Life, Art, Film, Horror)
"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Money, Film)
"As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy."
- David Cross
(Related: Work, Ability, Comedy, Film, Writer)
"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."
- Cameron Crowe
(Related: American, Spirit)
"Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies."
- Cameron Crowe
(Related: Movies, Project, Writer)
"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."
- John Crowley
(Related: Work, Film, Theatre, Thinking)
"Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing."
- John Crowley
(Related: Life, Time, Film)
"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."
- Tom Cruise
(Related: Money, Work, Choices, Film, Nothing)
"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."
- Tom Cruise
(Related: Work, Actors, Film)
"I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life."
- Tom Cruise
(Related: Life, Film, Help)
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
- Marton Csokas
(Related: Film, Months)
"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."
- Kieran Culkin
(Related: Film, First)
"It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves."
- Alan Cumming
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Alan Cumming
(Related: People, Film, Wrong)
"The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles."
- Ken Curtis
"I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Career, Honor, Moments, Public, Want, Will)
"They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting."
- Cyril Cusack
(Related: People, Act, Effect, Film, May, Play)
"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."
- Cyril Cusack
(Related: Television)
"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."
- John Cusack
(Related: Success, Money, Film, Office)
"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."
- John Cusack
(Related: Movies, Satire)
"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."
- John Cusack
(Related: Love, Movies, Film)
"I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut."
- John Cusack
(Related: Action)
"I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film."
- Peter Cushing
(Related: Work, Actor, Film, Now, Years)
"I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them."
- Peter Cushing
(Related: Favorite, Film)
"You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead."
- Peter Cushing
(Related: Business, Money, Selling, Silly)
"Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted."
- Willem Dafoe
(Related: People, Film, Theatre)
"I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in."
- Willem Dafoe
(Related: Film)
"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."
- Beatrice Dalle
(Related: Film)
"I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script."
- Beatrice Dalle
(Related: Work, Film)
"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."
- Beatrice Dalle
(Related: History, Building, Children)
"'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable."
- Timothy Dalton
(Related: Film, Glory, Opera, Wind)
"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film."
- Carson Daly
(Related: Music, Company, Film, Learning)
"In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama."
- Jean Claude Van Damme
(Related: Action, Drama, Film)
"Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25."
- Charles Dance
"The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them."
- Taylor Dane
(Related: Family, Men, Time, Development, Career, Film)
"Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed."
- Claire Danes
"You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Crisis, Film, Years)
"I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There."
- Blythe Danner
(Related: Time, Being, Favorite)
"Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters."
- Blythe Danner
(Related: Voice)
"Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film."
- Frank Darabont
(Related: Love, Film, Hate, Hell, Talking)
"To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film."
- Frank Darabont
(Related: Film)
"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Acting, Blame, Film, Result, Singing, Years)
"When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films."
- Geena Davis
(Related: Movies, Daughter, Act, Choices, Friends, Kids, Play, Sons)
"I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film."
- Hope Davis
(Related: Work, Film)
"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."
- Marc Davis
(Related: Career, Film, Help)
"At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil."
- Marc Davis
(Related: Business, Time, People, Ability, Film, Living, Words)
"Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market."
- Marc Davis
(Related: Money, Banks, Disney, Snow)
"I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that."
- Bruce Davison
(Related: People, Now)
"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: Performance, Sense)
"I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: Feelings, Care, Chance, Deals, Film)
"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
- Ted Demme
(Related: Today, Want)
"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."
- Ted Demme
(Related: Control, Film, Trying)
"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."
- Ted Demme
(Related: Movies, Film, Old)
"I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were."
- Ted Demme
(Related: Pressure, Word)
"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."
- Ted Demme
(Related: Want)
"I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor."
- Judi Dench
(Related: Control, Film, Will)
"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Actor, Being, Film, Theatre)
"Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Being)
"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Art, Technology, Balance, Content, Film)
"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Women, People)
"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Film)
"Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films."
- Catherine Deneuve
"That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Bizarre, Cinema, Film, Romantic)
"I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Love, Actors, Film, Interest, Play, Today)
"I did important films when I was very young."
- Catherine Deneuve
"I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done."
- Catherine Deneuve
"I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Love, Actors, Being, English, Film, Law)
"I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Clothes, Film, Style, Today)
"For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!"
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Friend, Film, First, Garden, Years)
"Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema."
- Sunny Deol
(Related: Cinema, Today)
"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."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Success, Work, People, Care, Film, Result, Want)
"We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films."
- Bo Derek
(Related: Months, Television, Today)
"I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different."
- Bo Derek
(Related: Love, Nudity)
"I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Actor, Responsibility, Understanding)
"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."
- Laura Dern
(Related: People, Commitment, Difference)
"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Hollywood, Office)
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Time, Washington)
"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Film, Style)
"I've always loved film more than theater."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Film, Theater)
"I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film."
- Jackie DeShannon
(Related: Time, People, Film, Mind)
"The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Life, Being, Difference, End, Evil)
"You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Act, Film)
"There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Publicity)
"Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Ideas, Possibility, Pretty)
"So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!"
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Film, Name, Will)
"To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Film, Name)
"I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Successful)
"If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?"
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Kiss, Film)
"In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Money, Work, Ethics, Film, Will)
"As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Time, Film, Will)
"I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out."
- Loretta Devine
(Related: People)
"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Film, Risk)
"I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much."
- Eric Dickerson
(Related: Film)
"I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet."
- Casper Van Dien
(Related: Destiny, Film, Race)
"My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Car, Mother, Advice, Credit)
"The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Idea, Culture, Film, Games, Kids, Now, Play, Right, Theft, Universe)
"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Money, Film, First, Skill, Years)
"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."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Months, Reality, Smoking, Want)
"My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Faith, Feeling, Film, First)
"When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'"
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Thought, Successful, Film, First, Want)
"If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Action, Performance, Appreciation, Dress, Film, Understanding)
"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."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Wife, Deals, Film, Loss, Revenge)
"I never enjoyed working in a film."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Desire, Film, Play)
"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: American, Film)
"I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by."
- Taye Diggs
(Related: Love, Film)
"Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Humanity, Nothing, Skill)
"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Aesthetics, Film)
"The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Money, Computer, Fact, Film, Hardware)
"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."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Trust, Time, Film, First, Hate, Months)
"I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Film)
"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Work, Film)
"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Trust, Film)
"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
- Richard Donner
(Related: Film, Thinking)
"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Time, Beginning, Film, School, Television)
"It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Life, Actors, Hurt)
"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
- Vincent D'Onofrio
(Related: Personality, Press, Quantity, Worry)
"It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz."
- Stephen Dorff
(Related: Film, Media, Now)
"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."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: Work, End, Years)
"I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: Brooks, Comedy, Footsteps, May)
"If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes."
- Brad Dourif
(Related: Actor, Artists, Film)
"I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing."
- Brad Dourif
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Robert Downey, Jr.
(Related: Drama, Film, Forget, Light)
"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."
- Richard Dreyfuss
(Related: Art, Acting, Actors, Being)
"You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition."
- Minnie Driver
(Related: Being, Film, Tradition)
"I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be."
- Minnie Driver
(Related: Love, Bizarre, Theater)
"But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England."
- Minnie Driver
(Related: Love, England)
"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
- Anne Dudley
(Related: Film)
"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved."
- Anne Dudley
(Related: Art, People, Collaboration, Film)
"Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle."
- Anne Dudley
"Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film."
- Keir Dullea
(Related: Ending, Film, Intentions)
"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."
- Keir Dullea
(Related: Time, Film, First)
"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."
- Faye Dunaway
(Related: Movies, Success, Budgets, Film, Hardware, Now)
"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Money, Movies, Community, Film)
"I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Actor, Film, First)
"Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking."
- Griffin Dunne
"And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films."
- Irene Dunne
"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: College, Film)
"If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."
- Adam Duritz
(Related: Dreams, Movies, Memories)
"Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned."
- Sanjay Dutt
"We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences."
- Sanjay Dutt
(Related: Audiences, Film)
"I have always done films with friends rather than strangers."
- Sanjay Dutt
(Related: Friends, Strangers)
"The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience."
- Sanjay Dutt
(Related: Family, Romance, Film, Songs)
"First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds."
- Charles S. Dutton
(Related: First, Now, Punishment)
"I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school."
- Charles S. Dutton
(Related: Acting, Film, School)
"You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: People, Culture, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Right, Want)
"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Committee, Today)
"Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Beginning, End, Hollywood)
"I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Boyfriend, Film)
"Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Acting)
"It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Work, Hope, End, Will)
"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Contrast, Environment, Film, Problems)
"I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Correction, End, Film)
"Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Being, Film)
"As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Contrast, Film, May, Sound, Will)
"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."
- Leslie Easterbrook
(Related: Acting, Day, Film)
"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."
- Clint Eastwood
(Related: Money, Country, Film)
"We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Class)
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Time, Film)
"Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Movies, America, Class, Film)
"I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: People, Opportunity, Criticism, Film, Giving, Internet, Self)
"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Mother, Father, Crisis, Film, Identity, Parents)
"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Money, Acting, Television, Theatre)
"What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Eye, Film)
"I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out."
- Christopher Eccleston
"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Actor, Film, Television, Theatre)
"If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: People, Successful, Interest)
"Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: Music, Control, Actor, Film)
"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: Content, Now, Right, Violence)
"A film has its own life and takes its own time."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: Life, Time, Film)
"This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director."
- Ben Edwards
(Related: Politics, Experience, Film, Understanding)
"Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception."
- Ben Edwards
(Related: Nature, Film)
"Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature."
- Ben Edwards
(Related: Nature, Care, Film)
"There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film."
- Ben Edwards
(Related: Film, Reality)
"While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker."
- Ben Edwards
(Related: Climate, Culture, Film, Media, Profit)
"Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming Hairsray. It's so weird because I grew up watching her."
- Zac Efron
"We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'."
- Zac Efron
(Related: School)
"I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Family, Society, Deals, Film, Question, Sense)
"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Expectation, Film, Trying, Will)
"Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Time, Audiences, Energy, Film, Reason)
"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."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Home, Son, Film, Television)
"The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: People, Being, Film)
"The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Time, Ability, Film, Space)
"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."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Expectations, Film)
"Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Work, Dream, American, Career, Now, Production, Right)
"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Film, Right)
"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."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Money, Film, Needs)
"That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Dad, Advice, Film, Irony, Language)
"When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Family, Development, Existence, Film, Planning)
"Language is much closer to film than painting is."
- Sergei Eisenstein
(Related: Film, Language, Painting)
"The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being."
- Sergei Eisenstein
(Related: Knowledge, Being, Film, Man, Profession, Will)
"I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of."
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: Character, Actor, Film, Projects)
"David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing."
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: Work, Thought, Film, Writing)
"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."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Love, Time, Film)
"So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Dance, Successful, Exercise, Film, Impulses, Wishes)
"It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Love, Opportunity, Film)
"You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Right, Sense, Trying)
"I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Film, Projects)
"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."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Music, Difference, Film, Understanding)
"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."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Film, Pleasure)
"I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Money, Freedom, Orchestras, Play)
"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Experience, Music, Film)
"I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Film, Trying)
"In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: People, Theater)
"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."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: Buying, Film, Television)
"I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: Development, Day)
"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."
- David R. Ellis
(Related: Movies, Chance, Summer, Want)
"So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys."
- David R. Ellis
"I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them."
- David R. Ellis
"I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist."
- Roland Emmerich
"I'm only a stupid filmmaker."
- Roland Emmerich
"I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival."
- Robert Englund
(Related: Comedy, Film, Venice)
"You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff."
- Mike Epps
(Related: People, Film, Old, School)
"I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff."
- Mike Epps
(Related: Film, Old, School)
"The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue."
- Omar Epps
(Related: Film, Open, Will)
"I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks."
- Omar Epps
(Related: Movies, Boxing)
"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Design, Dream, Film, Wonder)
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Experience, Building, Film)
"Kubrick's films have life - they just never die."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Life)
"I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas."
- Siobhan Fahey
(Related: Film)
"We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph."
- Jimmy Fallon
(Related: Car, Men, Film)
"This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason."
- Dennis Farina
(Related: Reason)
"No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film."
- Richard Farnsworth
(Related: Film)
"I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while."
- Richard Farnsworth
(Related: Action)
"I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet."
- Michael Fassbender
(Related: Success, Name, Office)
"I always approach film as a fan."
- Michael Fassbender
(Related: Film)
"'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film."
- Michael Fassbender
(Related: Life, Being, Film)
"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."
- Rainer W. Fassbinder
(Related: Work)
"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."
- Rainer W. Fassbinder
(Related: Dream, Criticism, Film, Hollywood)
"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero."
- Chow Yun Fat
(Related: Love, Romance, Action, Audiences, Comedy, Play, Romantic)
"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Film, Writing)
"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Film)
"A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together."
- Federico Fellini
(Related: Ending, Film)
"Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Nothing)
"I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Want, Years)
"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."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Car, Cinema)
"Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Film)
"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful."
- Sherilyn Fenn
(Related: Time, Being, London, Years)
"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."
- Sherilyn Fenn
(Related: Balance, World)
"Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way."
- Will Ferrell
(Related: Work, People, Comedy, Feet, Night)
"James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was."
- Will Ferrell
(Related: Funny, End, Film, Waiting)
"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."
- Sally Field
(Related: Business, People, Comedy, Film, Poor, Snobbery, Television, Want)
"The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Men, Movies, Women, Awards, Ceremony, Irony)
"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Film)
"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Act, Film, First, Language)
"The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Belief, Film)
"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Saying, Want)
"Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur."
- Ralph Fiennes
"You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Time, Film, Play)
"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."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Success, Work, Film)
"Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Accident, Drama, Film)
"When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Music, Film, Musicians)
"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Desire)
"Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Time, Film, Months, Quick, Years)
"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Art, Performance, Film, Theatre)
"I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Time, Being, Innocence, Loss)
"I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Time, Thought, Film)
"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Time, Theatre)
"We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life."
- Albert Finney
(Related: Life, People, Film)
"I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all."
- Albert Finney
(Related: Hope, Clothes, Day, Film, Will)
"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis."
- Albert Finney
(Related: Film, London, Tennis)
"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."
- Ernst Fischer
(Related: Bosses, Disaster, Film, Media, Press, Succeed, Television)
"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."
- Joe Flanigan
(Related: Science, Fiction, Respect)
"Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing."
- Louise Fletcher
(Related: Drama, Film, Television, Theater, Thinking)
"Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film."
- Henry Fonda
(Related: Successful, Film, Play, Trying)
"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."
- Glenn Ford
(Related: Experience, People, Film)
"I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do."
- Glenn Ford
(Related: Time, Day, Difference, Example, Film)
"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: People, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Film)
"I was truly ignorant about art before the film."
- Claire Forlani
(Related: Art, Film)
"The last three films I've done are about self-immolation."
- Claire Forlani
(Related: Self)
"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Now, School, Students)
"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."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Day, Film)
"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."
- Milos Forman
(Related: God, Being, First, France, Media)
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Experience, Decision, Film, Influence)
"You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Sex, Countries, Drugs, Literature, Nothing, Television, Violence, Years)
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Film, Hollywood)
"I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list."
- Bill Forsyth
"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Thought, Actors)
"It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Comfort, Joy)
"I don't really enjoy filming."
- Bill Forsyth
"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Film, Reason)
"Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Work, Mother)
"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Film, First, Psychology)
"I am the luckiest filmmaker I know."
- Jodie Foster
"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Love, Movies)
"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Life)
"There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing."
- John Foster
(Related: People, American, Fact, Film, Trying)
"I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago."
- John Foster
(Related: Years)
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
- John Foster
(Related: Film)
"As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action."
- John Foster
(Related: Action, Style)
"I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Film, Pretty, Wildlife, World)
"Pain is temporary, film is forever."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Film, Pain)
"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."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Time, People, Nothing, Problems)
"I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Opportunity)
"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
- James Franco
(Related: Film, Relationships)
"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Technology, Fact, Film, Key, Trying)
"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: People, Ability, Film, Revolution, Importance)
"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Pretty)
"I really, really love directing films."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Love)
"I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule."
- Dennis Franz
(Related: Experience, Film, Will)
"I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original."
- Brendan Fraser
(Related: Favorite, Film, Flies, Opinion)
"I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways."
- Brendan Fraser
(Related: Film)
"The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States."
- Brendan Fraser
(Related: Power, states, United)
"I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: Favorite, Film)
"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."
- Dawn French
(Related: Ideas, Being, Film)
"If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast."
- Glenn Frey
(Related: Goals, Building, Chance, Film)
"The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you."
- William Friedkin
(Related: Idea, Film, School, Want, Will)
"I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior."
- William Friedkin
(Related: Behavior, Examination, Film, Options)
"You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice."
- Will Friedle
(Related: Body, Film, Sense, Voice)
"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."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Mother, Baby, Film, Future, Irish, Old, Play)
"The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Character, Baby, Doctors, Film, Weight)
"One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic."
- Fred Frith
(Related: Music, Film, Logic, Machine, Sound, Writing)
"I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now."
- Sadie Frost
(Related: Time, Son, English, Kids, Months, Now)
"I haven't done an international film for a long time."
- Sadie Frost
(Related: Time, Film)
"I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious."
- Sadie Frost
(Related: Effort)
"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."
- Stephen Fry
(Related: Love, Action, Being, Coffee, Machine)
"Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film."
- Stephen Fry
(Related: Film)
"They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment."
- Stephen Fry
"Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Life, Disney, Film, Scouting)
"Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream."
- Antoine Fuqua
(Related: Love, Movies, Dream, Being, Growing up, Influence)
"I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire."
- Antoine Fuqua
(Related: Art, Voice)
"I like the opportunity to make films."
- Antoine Fuqua
(Related: Opportunity)
"Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel."
- Antoine Fuqua
(Related: Men, Work, Ethics, Opinions)
"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Film, Future)
"It's nice that we have all these different films."
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
"The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film."
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Related: Film)
"I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation."
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Related: Conversation, Film)
"You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off."
- Michael Gambon
(Related: Being, Theatre)
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
- Michael Gambon
(Related: Television)
"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Society, Men)
"People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me."
- Adam Garcia
(Related: Money, People, Acting, Film, Jobs, Reason)
"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre."
- Andy Garcia
(Related: Music, Acting, Community, First, Interest, Theatre)
"Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are."
- Andy Garcia
(Related: Movies, People, End)
"Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in."
- Andy Garcia
(Related: Movies, Film, Want)
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
- Helen Garner
(Related: Nature, Intention, Meaning, Rain)
"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it."
- James Garner
(Related: Movies, People, Now, Relationships, Want)
"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head."
- Daryl Gates
(Related: Film, Police)
"It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way."
- Ben Gazzara
(Related: Art, Money, Movies, Business, Courage, Cinema)
"I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film."
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
(Related: Love, Women, Culture, Film, Horror, Play)
"In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top."
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
(Related: Women, Comedy, Drama, Television)
"Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true."
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
(Related: Old, Will)
"But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece."
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
(Related: Film, Woman)
"Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series."
- Gil Gerard
(Related: Film, Fun)
"I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film."
- Gil Gerard
(Related: Science, Day, Earth, Fiction, Film, Reality)
"I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars."
- Gil Gerard
(Related: People, Film, Stars)
"There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Film, Light, Nothing, Project)
"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."
- Gina Gershon
(Related: Film, Old)
"Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film."
- Jami Gertz
(Related: Son, April, Film)
"Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films."
- Barry Gibb
"Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do."
- Mel Gibson
(Related: Business, Film, Independence)
"The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic."
- Mel Gibson
(Related: Direction, Film)
"I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on."
- Tyrese Gibson
(Related: Film)
"A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films."
- Tyrese Gibson
(Related: Actors, Limitations, Nothing)
"We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went."
- Terry Gilliam
(Related: Ideas, Film, Flying)
"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"
- Terry Gilliam
(Related: Film, First)
"I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film."
- David Ginola
(Related: Film, Horror)
"I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting."
- David Ginola
(Related: Career, Film, Television)
"I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire."
- David Ginola
(Related: Film, Summer)
"This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job."
- Paul M. Glaser
(Related: Actors, Film, Job)
"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
- Paul M. Glaser
(Related: Countries, Longevity, Television, World, Years)
"There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated."
- Dan Glickman
"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."
- Crispin Glover
(Related: Cinema, Film, Realism)
"Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects."
- Danny Glover
(Related: Values, Actor, African, Projects)
"I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family."
- Danny Glover
(Related: Family, Anger, African, Americans, Community, Film, Sleep, Spirituality)
"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."
- Jean-Luc Godard
(Related: Kiss, Film, Woman)
"As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential."
- William Goldman
(Related: Stars)
"I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most."
- Jerry Goldsmith
(Related: People, Action, Choice, Film, Quiet, Relationships, Variety)
"Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?"
- Samuel Goldwyn
(Related: Home, Money, People, Nothing, Television)
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."
- Samuel Goldwyn
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Lesley Gore
(Related: Film, Man, Now, World)
"Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Music, Film, Years)
"Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men."
- Ryan Gosling
(Related: Men, Being, Hollywood, Woman)
"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
- Ryan Gosling
(Related: Film, Weight)
"I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal."
- Lucas Grabeel
(Related: Goal, Want)
"The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Weather, Will)
"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."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Truth, Fact, Film, Ladies)
"Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Environment, Fancy, Film, Office, Wrong)
"When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Actors, Film)
"I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: People, Deep, Film)
"And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Nature, Acting, Film, Mind)
"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."
- Lee Grant
(Related: Love, Film, First, World)
"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."
- Richard E. Grant
(Related: Time, Criticism, Efficiency, Film)
"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."
- Al Green
(Related: Life, Love, Film)
"A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing."
- Brian Austin Green
(Related: Friend, Fun, Students)
"My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time."
- Eva Green
(Related: Movies, Time, Mother, Film)
"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."
- Eva Green
(Related: Actors, Drama, Now, School)
"I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it."
- Peter Greenaway
(Related: Art, Time, Work, Space)
"You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet."
- Robert Greenwald
(Related: People, Internet, Now, Talking, Years)
"If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country."
- Robert Greenwald
(Related: People, Country, Difference, Effort, Film)
"I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall."
- Bruce Greenwood
(Related: Time, Feeling, Film, Instinct, Thinking, Writing)
"There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music."
- Jonny Greenwood
(Related: Music, Connection, Favorite, Film)
"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result."
- Jonny Greenwood
(Related: Film, Result)
"It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future."
- Pam Grier
(Related: Forget, Future, Years)
"I like to do all kinds of films."
- Pam Grier
"Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are."
- Pam Grier
(Related: Experience, Time, People, Film, Gain)
"I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films."
- Pam Grier
(Related: Sense)
"I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people."
- Pam Grier
(Related: Love, People)
"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."
- Rachel Griffiths
(Related: Actors)
"One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors."
- Rupert Grint
(Related: Film, Meeting)
"We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one."
- Rupert Grint
"Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books."
- Rupert Grint
(Related: Books, Film)
"For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film."
- Rupert Grint
(Related: Film)
"I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny."
- Rupert Grint
(Related: Funny)
"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."
- Justin Guarini
(Related: Film, Kids)
"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
- Val Guest
(Related: Comedy, Film, Job)
"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
- Val Guest
(Related: Film, First, Murder)
"Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Film, Fun, Terror)
"From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Actor, Actors)
"On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly."
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
(Related: Acting, Clothes, Film)
"On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries."
- Lukas Haas
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Credit, Film, Writer)
"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Film)
"It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Choices, Ego, Fighting)
"I make films about working class people."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: People, Class)
"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."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: People, Being, Film, Literary, Writer)
"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Film)
"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Music, Film, Theater, Writing)
"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Men, Movies, Women, Action, Exploitation, Film, Growing up, Now)
"I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre."
- Paul Haggis
(Related: Answers, Film, Job, Questions, Theatre)
"But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986)."
- Corey Haim
(Related: Beer, Film)
"You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Actors, Film, Rap, Stars)
"They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Work, Film, Respect)
"I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Family, Father, Growing up, Obvious)
"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."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Funny, Movies, Film, Television, Years)
"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."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: People, Deals, Film, Friends, Now, Stars, Years)
"The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Film, Meaning)
"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Film, Freedom, Light)
"With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Art, Abuse, Contrast, Eye, Film, Light, Today)
"It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Car, Driving, Feet, Film, Light, Magic, Mystery, Sense)
"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Film, First)
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Writer)
"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Father)
"My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Trouble, World)
"But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Now)
"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Quality, Film)
"Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like."
- Lawrence Halprin
(Related: Film)
"I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes."
- Ayumi Hamasaki
(Related: Movies, Airplanes, Theater)
"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."
- Guy Hamilton
(Related: Change, Film, Formula, Now)
"I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies."
- Laurell K. Hamilton
(Related: Movies, Fear, Being)
"I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years."
- Jan Hammer
(Related: Music, Television, Years)
"That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it."
- Tom Hanks
(Related: People, Hope, Film, Nothing)
"Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium."
- Daryl Hannah
"I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Dancing, Film)
"Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Opportunity, Now, Play, Years)
"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."
- Mary Hansen
(Related: Being, Cinema, Film, World)
"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Old, Years)
"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Film, Pretty)
"My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Heart, Film, First, Job, Oil, Old, Research, Years)
"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Finance, Government, People, Result)
"This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: People, Pretty, Smoking, Talking)
"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Film, Force)
"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."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Action, Actors, American, English, Film)
"I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Work, Film, Oil, Result)
"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Film, Living)
"A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Government, Money, Film)
"Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up."
- Woody Harrelson
(Related: People, Film)
"Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining."
- Woody Harrelson
(Related: Entertainment, Film, Value)
"It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Experience, Film)
"I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Work, Thought, People)
"A lot of films come out before they're finished."
- Ed Harris
"You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Day, Sleep)
"I would loathe to work on modern films."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Work)
"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."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Film, Friends)
"With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone."
- Julie Harris
"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."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Time, Film, Luck)
"I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Day, Film, Hollywood)
"I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Film)
"I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Film)
"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Randy Harrison
(Related: Ability, Career, England, Will)
"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
- Thomas Harrison
(Related: Film)
"I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school."
- Ray Harryhausen
(Related: Art, Direction, Film, Photography, School)
"Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos."
- Ray Harryhausen
(Related: Film)
"So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational."
- Ray Harryhausen
(Related: People, Entertainment, Now, Value)
"That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are."
- Ian Hart
"I've only used my own voice about four times on film."
- Ian Hart
(Related: Film, Voice)
"I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films."
- Ian Hart
(Related: American)
"Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away."
- Mary Hart
(Related: Years)
"I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable."
- Melissa Joan Hart
(Related: Family, People, Film)
"I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting."
- Melissa Joan Hart
(Related: Hope, Now, Projects, Right)
"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!"
- Josh Hartnett
(Related: Thought, Friend, Friends, Queen)
"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."
- Josh Hartnett
(Related: Film, Horror, Terror)
"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."
- Colleen Haskell
(Related: Opportunity, Film, Job, Planning)
"I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films."
- Colleen Haskell
"Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series."
- Noah Hathaway
"Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Film, Publishing)
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: Film, Woman)
"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."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: Film, Woman)
"I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: Character, Film, Pretty)
"Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film."
- Lee Hazlewood
(Related: Film, Television, Waiting)
"I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics."
- Tippi Hedren
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Chris Hemsworth
(Related: Work, Character, Actors, Film, Sense, World)
"Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there."
- Chris Hemsworth
(Related: Day)
"I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign."
- Chris Hemsworth
(Related: Being, Film, Pretty)
"Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper."
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Development, Character, Horror)
"I grew up on film scores and scores from films."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Film)
"When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it."
- Lance Henriksen
(Related: Fantasy, Film, Horror, Surprises)
"It certainly made a film writing career for me."
- Buck Henry
(Related: Career, Film, Writing)
"I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love."
- Shuler Hensley
(Related: Love, Work, Film, First, First love, Theatre)
"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."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Beauty, Power, Quality)
"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."
- Katharine Hepburn
(Related: Boyfriend, Ambition, American, Film, Hollywood)
"But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film."
- Jay Hernandez
(Related: Connection, Film)
"I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film."
- Barbara Hershey
(Related: Actors, Film, Publicity, Talk)
"I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing."
- Barbara Hershey
(Related: Movies, American, Film)
"I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated."
- Barbara Hershey
(Related: People, Actors, Film, Hollywood, Sensibility)
"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."
- Werner Herzog
(Related: Audiences, Film, Laws)
"I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard."
- Werner Herzog
(Related: Work, Film)
"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."
- Werner Herzog
(Related: Art, Film)
"Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely."
- Charlton Heston
(Related: Art, Experience, American, Example)
"The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking."
- Charlton Heston
(Related: End, Film, Sound)
"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."
- Charlton Heston
(Related: Government, Film, Fire, President, Years)
"I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set."
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
(Related: Film, Horror, Sleep)
"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."
- Dwayne Hickman
(Related: Film)
"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie."
- Dwayne Hickman
(Related: Work, Film)
"Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten."
- Patricia Highsmith
(Related: Film, Prizes, World)
"I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes."
- Patricia Highsmith
(Related: Lady)
"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
- Walter Hill
(Related: Criticism, Film)
"You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences."
- Walter Hill
"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Idea, Film, Man)
"I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Travel, Development, Film, Meetings)
"I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Opportunity, Film)
"Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback."
- Arthur Hiller
(Related: Wife, Being, Dying, Film, Office, Walking)
"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
- Gregory Hines
(Related: Sense)
"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."
- Paul Hirsch
(Related: Music, Film, Influence)
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Endurance, Film)
"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Life, Fear, Film, Luck, Suspense)
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Film, Theatre, Worth)
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Man)
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: God)
"I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist."
- Alice Hoffman
(Related: Film, Writing)
"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in."
- Dustin Hoffman
(Related: Act, Film, Writing)
"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."
- Dustin Hoffman
(Related: Film, Now, Reason, Will)
"Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Day, Theater)
"I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Idea, Career, Film)
"My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Love, Work, Acting, Film, Theater)
"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
- Paul Hogan
(Related: Work, Retirement, Years)
"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."
- Paul Hogan
(Related: Movies, Actor, Body, Career, Film, Job, Man, Want, Years)
"You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown."
- Tobe Hooper
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Tobe Hooper
(Related: Film, Spirit)
"The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Money, Film, Television)
"I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Funny, Audiences, Ending, Fact, Film, Laughter, London, Speech)
"I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Life, Clarity)
"There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Film)
"I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Film)
"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."
- Dennis Hopper
(Related: Brothers, Country)
"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."
- Dennis Hopper
(Related: Film)
"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."
- Lena Horne
(Related: Television, Years)
"I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them."
- Bob Hoskins
"I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people."
- Bryce Dallas Howard
(Related: Life, Society, People, Comfort, Perspective)
"And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Education, Actor, Career, Film, Gain)
"And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Work, Formula, Want)
"I've been number two in films for donkey's years."
- Trevor Howard
(Related: Years)
"I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult."
- Charlie Hunnam
(Related: Character, Dancing, Film, Singing, Style)
"I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere."
- Charlie Hunnam
(Related: Character, Actors, Film)
"The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses."
- Kim Hunter
(Related: Cinema, Film, Queen)
"A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy."
- Kim Hunter
(Related: Sex, Joy, Now, Violence)
"For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Being, Theatre, Vacation)
"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Being, Film)
"Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Experience, Funny, Sacrifice, People, Actors, Fiction, Film, Games, Space, Violence, Want)
"When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Time, Film, Wonder)
"The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Character, Purpose, Interest, Theatre)
"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."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Decision, Deep, Desire, Film, Want)