Top 100 Quotes About Film
#1. When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just pull the plug and say, 'This isn't working.' There's just no security on television, especially for African Americans. It's a tough market.
Vivica A. Fox
#2. The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
Sanjay Dutt
#3. I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.
Michel Ocelot
#4. I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.
Guy Berryman
#5. 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
#6. In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
Kage Baker
#7. I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.
George R R Martin
#8. I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
Vincent Schiavelli
#9. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
#10. I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.
Steven Hall
#11. As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.
Jeremy Lloyd
#12. To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures
Hayao Miyazaki
#13. The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by reading a complicated book or watching a film you again change... It's a fact!
Deyth Banger
#14. I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#15. I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'
Claire Denis
#16. I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
Errol Flynn
#18. Every once in a while you definitely have to film someone for half an hour saying something that you do not think is funny because for the previous two hours they said a bunch of stuff that you think is really funny.
Seth Rogen
#19. I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.
Geoff Zanelli
#20. When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen
Jesse Andrews
#21. Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.
Louie Psihoyos
#22. For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
Adam McKay
#23. 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
#24. The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
Agnes Varda
#25. You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.
Susan Sarandon
#26. His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.
Luke Taylor
#27. I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
Samantha Barks
#28. 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
#29. The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'
Jason Calacanis
#30. But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.
Pete Docter
#31. Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
Ivan Reitman
#32. 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
#33. Being around all the animals in the film Dr.Doolittle made me one too.
Samantha Eggar
#34. Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
Alfonso Cuaron
#35. 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
#36. You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
Eric Fellner
#37. The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.
Jafar Panahi
#42. So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.
Joshua Michael Stern
#43. So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.
Steve Martin
#44. Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
Eriq La Salle
#45. I'm not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
Martin Scorsese
#46. There's no wrong way to experience a film.
Vera Farmiga
#47. People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that.
Dax Shepard
#48. If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
Luke Evans
#49. Women are very clear and
transparent, anyone can read them,
they don't play 'hide and seek'
like men. #LIFE OF LOVE
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#50. Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.
Charlotte Rae
#51. Space does for comics what time does for film!
Scott McCloud
#52. There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
Jodelle Ferland
#53. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.
Fiona Thrust
#54. There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.
Steve Guttenberg
#55. Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#56. Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.
Kim Cattrall
#57. Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.
Rami Malek
#58. When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
Mario Van Peebles
#59. My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
Jay Roach
#60. By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.
Stephen King
#61. MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#63. I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
Mads Mikkelsen
#64. The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.
Teresa Palmer
#65. In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all
Aaron Tveit
#66. The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
George Bernard Shaw
#67. I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.
Angelina Jolie
#68. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
Ray McKinnon
#69. I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel ... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.
Catherine Deneuve
#70. We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
Rani Mukerji
#71. I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.
Ryan Kwanten
#73. I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
Stanley Kubrick
#74. I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.
Brad Pitt
#75. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
Vin Diesel
#76. 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
#77. Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all.
Hugh Laurie
#78. Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
Helen McCrory
#79. 'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.
Ranbir Kapoor
#80. Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.
David Hockney
#81. We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.
Laszlo Nemes
#82. 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
#83. The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.
Ron Moody
#84. Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.
Hideaki Anno
#85. Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.
Anita Elberse
#86. I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.
Hugh Jackman
#87. I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.
Luke Evans
#88. Love this in the film, "Velvet Goldmine" it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
Anna Sui
#89. Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith
#90. I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
Brit Marling
#91. So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.
Alice Lowe
#92. It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
David Gilmour
#93. A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
James Mangold
#94. You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender
John Geddes
#95. I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.
Lara Pulver
#96. We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.
Martin Freeman
#97. I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests, it's not the other way around, that's how I feel.
Lars Von Trier
#98. Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.
Elisa Kreisinger
#99. I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
Armand Assante
#100. Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.
Conan O'Brien
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