Best Films Quotes

#1. David O. Russell's best films are thrilling high wire acts that run the moment to moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In his latest, "Joy," Russell has more trouble than usual keeping his balance on the wire.

David O. Russell

#2. And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.

Irene Dunne

#3. And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they're more imaginative, and there's no artifice, and it's far more real.

Kevin Smith

#4. The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Edward Norton

#5. I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

Anushka Sharma

#6. And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

Ethan Hawke

#7. The best films are because of nobody but the director.

Roman Polanski

#8. All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

David Heyman

#9. Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.

Robert Loggia

#10. Blindspot and Person of Interest are the best films ever made. They aren't films, but they are series.

Deyth Banger

#11. Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

Peter Travers

#12. Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

Joel Siegel

#13. A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.

Simon Pegg

#14. By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Iain Banks

#15. The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do ... our production values have elevated this genre.

David A.R. White

#16. There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

Domhnall Gleeson

#17. I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

Tim Roth

#18. Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are?

Sebastian Faulks

#19. Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.

Irwin Winkler

#20. The best films come about through experimentation.

Nick Park

#21. I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

John Hawkes

#22. 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

#23. What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

James Mangold

#24. In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.

Steve Erickson

#25. Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

Kathleen Turner

#26. American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

Ben Dreyfuss

#27. The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#28. I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#29. We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#30. I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

Paul Haggis

#31. Here's my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break.

Mark Romanek

#32. I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

Jack Palance

#33. Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.

Esha Gupta

#34. I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.

John Waters

#35. You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.

Eli Roth

#36. I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Spike Lee

#37. I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.

Nicole Ari Parker

#38. The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

Emma Thompson

#39. 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

#40. Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

Robert Altman

#41. I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

Hill Harper

#42. When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

Shirley Knight

#43. I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

George A. Romero

#44. I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.

T. J. Thyne

#45. Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

Frances McDormand

#46. And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

Daniel Radcliffe

#47. The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.

Steve McQueen

#48. Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.

Warren Farrell

#49. I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

Jacqueline Bisset

#50. There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

Steve Sabol

#51. The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It's a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It's natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that's not the best thing for making quality films.

Gary Kurtz

#52. We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

David Heyman

#53. I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

Paddy Considine

#54. My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'

Adam DeVine

#55. It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.

Michelle Yeoh

#56. The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

Douglas Wood

#57. I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

Elisha Cuthbert

#58. On the X-Men films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.

Evan Peters

#59. 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

#60. You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

Randeep Hooda

#61. You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

Scarlett Johansson

#62. 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

#63. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.

Alethea Kontis

#64. I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

Bryan Cranston

#65. 'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.

Johnathon Schaech

#66. 'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

Marjane Satrapi

#67. The best thing that's ever happened to me is my daughter. To be a Mom is the best thing in the world. You know, that's all I really wanted to do after I had finished doing films.

Marilyn Chambers

#68. If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

Priyanka Chopra

#69. The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can't be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

Akira Kurosawa

#70. We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are not only great actors, but great comedians and improvisers and filmmakers. And they then become a part of creating their characters.

Eric Darnell

#71. I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#72. The Butcher of Babylon featured in over 500 porn films between 1974 and 1982, and was best known for his motto: Come for the butcher, stay for the meat.

Mark Jackman

#73. The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.

J.P. Donleavy

#74. Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.

Ameesha Patel

#75. I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

Sean Combs

#76. Even with some of the best action films like The Bourne Ultimatum, which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

William Friedkin

#77. idea. But if you look at her early films, the best ones are all about Bette wanting a male she can't have: Dangerous. All This, and Heaven Too. Jezebel. The Letter. Now, Voyager. They're all about the unattainable. They're all about a woman desiring a man she can never possess.

Jane Lotter

#78. Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

Kelly Reilly

#79. 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

#80. It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.

Anurag Kashyap

#81. Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

Ravi Teja

#82. 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 Werner Fassbinder

#83. Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

Steve Erickson

#84. As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.

Denise Duhamel

#85. I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#86. Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

Anthony Mackie

#87. As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

James McAvoy

#88. As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.

Rachel G. Fox

#89. The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

Salman Khan

#90. 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

#91. There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

Kiefer Sutherland

#92. I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.

Spike Lee

#93. Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

James Gray

#94. To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.

Marshall Curry

#95. There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'

Stellan Skarsgard

#96. Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

Chris Pine

#97. In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

Will Self

#98. I don't know if I make the best gay films.

Ang Lee

#99. It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

Barbara Steele

#100. What's the biggest problem?
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People show in the films not the best ideas which have been ever exposed to the world.

Deyth Banger