Quotes About Good Films

#1. I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

Errol Flynn

#2. Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

Jonathan Lethem

#3. Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

Gordon Willis

#4. I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.

Karan Johar

#5. I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

Tom Stoppard

#6. John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

Eli Wallach

#7. Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

Catherine Hardwicke

#8. I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

Joshua Leonard

#9. In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Susan Sontag

#10. Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

Murray Horwitz

#11. But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.

Stephen Hunter

#12. Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

Gretchen Mol

#13. I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

Liv Tyler

#14. I love looking at the old Bond films. Maybe it's purely out of reminiscence, the nostalgic things you think about. But there were some very good films made, and I think that the public has enjoyed them, too.

Albert R. Broccoli

#15. I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

Ranbir Kapoor

#16. I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful; I don't want my life to change. I really don't want to be a movie star.

Amelia Warner

#17. My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

Yuliya Snigir

#18. There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

Mark Rydell

#19. Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.

Jean-Luc Godard

#20. My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

Matthew Goode

#21. My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

Ralph Bakshi

#22. I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Logan Lerman

#23. I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

Josh Hartnett

#24. In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Michael Caine

#25. But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

Patricia Clarkson

#26. I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Nick Cave

#27. Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

David Lean

#28. I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.

Abbas Kiarostami

#29. I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

Drake

#30. The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

Terry Zwigoff

#31. I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#32. Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Roger Ebert

#33. The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

Eriq La Salle

#34. I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

Darren Shahlavi

#35. I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

Matthew Vaughn

#36. When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

Lars Von Trier

#37. Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

Julia Roberts

#38. To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

Howard Shore

#39. My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

John Cusack

#40. Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Robert Duvall

#41. I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

Tom Holland

#42. I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

Salman Rushdie

#43. I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

Clint Eastwood

#44. I don't think good films have messages.

Julia Leigh

#45. I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

Elijah Wood

#46. I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

Jeff Fahey

#47. I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films.

Craig Roberts

#48. You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

Tuppence Middleton

#49. There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

Aurora Guerrero

#50. 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

#51. It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#52. Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.

Tina Majorino

#53. The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

Viggo Mortensen

#54. 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

#55. Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

Sunny Deol

#56. 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

#57. I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

Connie Stevens

#58. In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition.

Justin Timberlake

#59. I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

Jane Fonda

#60. I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.

Cara Delevingne

#61. When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.

David Hedison

#62. I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

Debbie Reynolds

#63. 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

#64. The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

Alexander Payne

#65. First, stop making formula films that people have already started rejecting.

This year, several big budget films haven't been entertained by the audience.Still stars continue to dictate terms.

The youth wants new good content.

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Anurag Kashyap

#66. With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. It's a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

Drew Goddard

#67. 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

#68. Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Pola Negri

#69. Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Pedro Almodovar

#70. Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

Jon Stewart

#71. I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

Colin Farrell

#72. You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Dev Anand

#73. My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Russell Crowe

#74. When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.

Arjun Rampal

#75. With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

Peter Farrelly

#76. So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

Ewan McGregor

#77. I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#78. Good dreams are better than films or books.

Alison Goldfrapp

#79. Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.

Brian J. White

#80. We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

James Wan

#81. 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

#82. You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.

Matt Robinson

#83. I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Robert Redford

#84. 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

#85. There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

John Garfield

#86. When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second to none.

William Fichtner

#87. I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'

James Snyder

#88. There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Gal Gadot

#89. People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#90. I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

Jonathan Demme

#91. I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.

Abhishek Bachchan

#92. I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

Kate Winslet

#93. I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

Eric Idle

#94. I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor ... When you give super-hit films, then only you are considered as a good actor. At least, that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.

Shahid Kapoor

#95. You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that ... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

Yahoo Serious

#96. I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.

John Hurt

#97. There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?

Lemmy Kilmister

#98. I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

Isabelle Huppert

#99. With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

Dwayne Johnson

#100. The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.

Gong Li