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Film Quotes:

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

topic: Arrogance, Levels, Film

quote every great film should seem new every time you see it roger ebert Quotes

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

topic: Different, Video, Film

Quotation Stanley Kubrick Perhaps it sounds ridiculous but the best thing that young Quotes

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

topic: Giving, Film, Unsuccessful

Indian film awards lack credibility.

topic: Awards, Film, Credibility

If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit

topic: Film, Katrina

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.

topic: Awards, Giving, Film, Award Ceremonies

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

- Aaron Eckhart

topic: Movie, Film

Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

- Aaron Eckhart

topic: Girl, Film, Yeah

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

topic: Watches, Film, Newspapers

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

topic: War, Worry, Film

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

- Aaron Stanford

topic: Icons, Horror, Film

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

topic: Genius, Film, My Favorite, Hitchcock

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

- Abbas Kiarostami

topic: Thinking, Matter, Film, Woody Allen Film

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Done, World, Film

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

topic: Care, Film, Mr Right

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

topic: Want, Festivals, Film, Film Festivals

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

topic: Honor, Thieves, Film, Honor Among Thieves

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

- Abhishek Bachchan

topic: Successful, Simple, Film

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

- Abhishek Bachchan

topic: People, Looking Forward, 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.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Facts, Film

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fans, Kind, Film

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

topic: Acting, Juilliard, Film, Film Acting

My intention is to do more films.

- Adepero Oduye

source: Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 26, 2011.

topic: Film, Intention

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

- Adepero Oduye

source: "SUNDANCE FUTURES | “Pariah” Actress Adepero Oduye". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2011.

topic: Years, Watches, Film

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

topic: Challenges, Trying, Film

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

topic: Months, Film

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

- Adrianne Palicki

source: "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

topic: Television, Broadway, Film

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.

topic: War, Safety, Film, Choreography

I love the conversation between film and music.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Film, Conversation, Film And Music

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

source: Agnès Varda, T. Jefferson Kline (2013). “Agnès Varda: Interviews”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Film, Made, Not Interested

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.

topic: Tunes, Film, Bigs

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Thinking, Film, Film And Music

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Childhood, Watches, Film

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

topic: Names, Needs, Film, Distributors

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

topic: Long, Lasts, Film

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?

topic: Kissing, Film, Remakes, French Kiss

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

topic: Believe, Successful, Film

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

topic: Film

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

topic: Facts, Film, Microscopes, Love Films

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

- Akira Kurosawa

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Common, Problem, Film, Film Directors, Directing Film

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

topic: Hurt, Film, Sentiments

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

topic: Friday, Film, Wells, Happy Friday

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Beautiful, Cry, Film

When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

- Alain Resnais

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Littles, Remember, Film

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

- Alain Resnais

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Film, Reason, Reactions

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

- Alain Resnais

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Television, Firsts, Film

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

- Alain Resnais

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Film

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

- Alain Resnais

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Style, Might, Film

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

- Alain Resnais

topic: Film, Driven, Assignments

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

- Alain Resnais

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Special, Film, Appetite

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

- Alain Resnais

topic: Technique, Film, Used

My films are about embarrassment.

topic: Film, Embarrassment

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Scripts, 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.

topic: Thinking, People, Film, Tied Up

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

topic: Directors, Film, Film Directors

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

topic: Dames, Film, Sitcom

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Air, Two, Film, Dumpsters

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

source: The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

topic: Rain, Film, Fine

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

topic: Different, Film, Made

Film-making is a physically hard job.

source: "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Film

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

source: "'Awards stink. Especially when other people win them and you don't'". BFI interview, www.bfi.org.uk. March 10, 2003.

topic: Views, People, Film

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Actors, Film, Crew

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

topic: Film, Made, Force

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

topic: Watches, Nightmare, Film

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

topic: Energy, Film, Glances

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Target, Sometimes, Film

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Language, Film, Boring

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mouths, Film

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Ducks, Film

You do a film and you have hopes for it, and you read it, and you see it one way in your head, and you shoot it, and it'll always change from what you started out. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes it turns out; I don't know, but as movies go I've never experienced seeing and likening what I've read, and I liked what I read.

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Way, Sometimes, Film

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

- Albert Brooks

topic: Interesting, Want, Film

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

topic: Want, Film, Boat

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

topic: Eye, Directors, Film, Testicles

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

- Aleksey Igudesman

topic: Interesting, Film, Classical Music

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

- Alessandro Nivola

topic: Stars, Film, Notoriety

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

- Alessandro Nivola

source: "Claws in his contract". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2001.

topic: Kids, Python, Film, Monty

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

- Alessandro Nivola

topic: Gone, Film, Producers

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

source: "Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies". Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

topic: Japan, Mexico, Film

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

source: Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

topic: Film, Compass, Wells

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

topic: Able, Film, Scene

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

topic: Hero, Film, Spartacus

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

topic: Film, Best Film, Composing

People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.

- Alex Pettyfer

topic: People, Film, Love Making

It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Mean, Lasts, Film

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

topic: Movie, Film, Certain

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Voice, Film, Voice Over

I want all of my films to belong to me.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Want, Film

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Nerves, Calm, Film, Money Doesn't Buy Happiness

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

- Alexander Payne

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Film, Made, Audience

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

- Alexander Payne

topic: One Day, Film

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Italian, Film, Sideways

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Thinking, Self, Film

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Years, Vivid, Film

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

- Alexandra Daddario

source: "Alexandra Daddario talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D' twist and scaring herself". Interview with Kevin P. Sullivan, www.mtv.com. May 15, 2013.

topic: Strong, Horror, Film

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

- Alexandra Fuller

topic: Watches, Film

That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.

- Alexandra Roach

topic: Passion, Tvs, Film

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Book, School, Film, Film History

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

- Alfred Hitchcock

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Murder, Film, Scene

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Way, Film

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Men, Body, Film

I went brunette for a film called Fascination and I loved it.

source: "Bright Lights, Big Hair". Glamour Magazine column, March 2007.

topic: Fascination, Film, Brunette

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

- Alicia Silverstone

topic: Actresses, Tvs, Film

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

- Alicia Vikander

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Film, Feels, Halfway

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

- Alicia Vikander

topic: Thinking, Interviews, Film

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

topic: Behind The Scenes, Want, Film

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

topic: Film, Filmmaker

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.

topic: Horror, Film, Horror Film

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

topic: Meaningful, Half, Film, Meaningful Conversations

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

topic: Watches, Tvs, Film, Romantic Film

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

topic: Acting, Broadway, Film

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

topic: Dream, Writing, Film, Evanescence

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

source: "Interview: Amy Weber interview". www.askmen.com.

topic: Film

All films are born free and equal.

topic: Film, Born, Born Free

With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways.

- Andre Benjamin

topic: Way, Sometimes, Film

I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

- Andre Braugher

topic: Fans, Horror, Film, Horror Film

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Issues, Film, Theme

Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Want, Film

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Film

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Long, Way, Film

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Firsts, Film, Starting

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Decision, Film

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism,

- Andrew Dominik

source: "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.

topic: Film, Crime, Feels

The crime film is the most honest American film.

- Andrew Dominik

source: "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.

topic: Honest, Film, Crime

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

- Andrew Lincoln

source: "Q&A – Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

topic: Incentives, Film, Feels

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

- Andrew Sarris

source: Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Opinion, Reputation, Film, Propositions

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

topic: Historical, Hollywood, Film

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

- Andrzej Wajda

source: "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. uly 2005.

topic: Past, Spirit, Film

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

- Andrzej Wajda

topic: Would Be, Television, Film

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

- Andrzej Wajda

topic: Cinema, Film, Made

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

- Andrzej Wajda

topic: Giving, Tickets, Film

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

- Andrzej Wajda

topic: Europe, Television, Film, Film Production

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.

topic: People, Together, Film

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

source: Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

topic: Film, Lord, Projects, Videogame, Short Films

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

topic: Chance, Canvas, Film

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

topic: Different, Matter, Film

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

topic: World, Film, Authenticity, American Film

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western

topic: Art, Chinese, Film, Art Films

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

topic: Kind, Film, Incredibles

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Two Sides, Sides, Film

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: War, Film, Should

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

source: "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

topic: Beautiful, Film, Appeals

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

topic: Art, Film, Term, Dichotomy

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

topic: Moving, Film, Authority

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

topic: Art, Financial, Film, Financial Resources

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

topic: Risk, World, Film

I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Mtv, Film, This Is Me

In film, you can have sad endings.

topic: Film, Sad Ending

My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Way, Film, Minutes, Overreaching

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Princess, Diaries, Film, Princess Diaries

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

- Annette Funicello

topic: Stories, Film, Staff

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Film, Assignments, Valuable, Valuable Things

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Real, Film

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

- Anthony Daniels

topic: Film, Wells, Very Cool, Film Set

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Needs, Film, Life Affirming, Affirming

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

- Anthony Minghella

source: Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

topic: Children, Cinema, Film

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write,

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Writing, Able, Film

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Editing, Realizing, Film

I like the opportunity to make films.

- Antoine Fuqua

topic: Opportunity, Film

Films should be for everybody.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Film, Should

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Film, Bright Future, Advantage, Future Is Bright, Short Films

I want my films to be seen everywhere.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Want, Film

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Emotional, Film, Possessive

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Boards, Film, Force, Redundant, Conspiring

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Mind, Important, Film

Films are like oxygen for me.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Oxygen, Film

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Quirky, Film

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

- Anushka Sharma

topic: Simplicity, Film, Goodness

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

topic: Art, House, Film, Sections

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that

- Armand Assante

topic: Hollywood, Film, Enough, Banging

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

- Armand Assante

topic: Years, Film, Theater

Film and art are close together.

- Arne Glimcher

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Together, Film

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Block, Film, Stay Focused

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.

topic: Together, Mosaics, Film

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

topic: Mean, America, Film, Distributors

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

- Arthur Erickson

source: Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

topic: Artist, Film, Building

'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.

- Ashley Greene

topic: Twilight, Looks, Film

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

topic: Different, Way, Film

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.

source: Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

topic: Energy, Film, Vulnerable

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

topic: Independent, Reality, Film, Harsh Reality

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

topic: Writing, Scripts, Film

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

topic: Want, Film

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

source: Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

topic: School, Niche, Film

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

topic: School, Privilege, Film

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

topic: Australia, World, Film

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Past, Film, Materials, Projectors, Value Of History

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

- Bahman Ghobadi

topic: Regret, Historical, Film

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

- Bahman Ghobadi

topic: Censorship, Film, Wanted

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

- Bahman Ghobadi

source: "The Things We Carry: Crossing Borders with “A Time For Drunken Horses” director Bahman Gh". Interview with Erin Torneo, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2000.

topic: Cameras, Littles, Film

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

topic: Thinking, Firsts, Film

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

topic: World, Want, Film

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

- Barbara Broccoli

source: "Producer Barbara Broccoli Talks EVERYTHING OR NOTHING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF 007, Daniel Craig, SKYFALL Deleted Scenes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 5, 2012.

topic: People, Film, Length

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

- Barbara Broccoli

topic: Growing Up, Father, 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

topic: Actors, Publicity, Film

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

- Barry Sonnenfeld

topic: Years, Film, Reviews

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

topic: Thinking, People, Film

Western films don't do very well in India.

topic: India, Film, Wells, Western Films

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.

topic: Native American, Epic, Film, Western Films

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

topic: Red, Film, Company

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

topic: Culture, Youth, Film

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

topic: Lazy, Acting, Film

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