Film famous quotes
04-09-2025
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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
-- A. O. Scott -
In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
-- Aaliyah -
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
-- Aamir Khan -
If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit
-- Aamir Khan -
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.
-- Aamir Khan -
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
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 -
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
-- Aaron Yoo -
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
-- Abel Ferrara -
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
-- Abel Ferrara -
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
-- Abel Ferrara -
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
-- Abel Ferrara -
A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
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 -
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 -
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.
-- Adam Driver -
I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
-- Adepero Oduye -
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
-- Adrian Lyne -
I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
-- Adrian Lyne -
Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
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 -
I love the conversation between film and music.
-- Agnes Obel -
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
-- Agnes Varda -
I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
-- Ahmed Best -
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
-- Aimee Mullins -
To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.
-- Ajay Devgan -
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 -
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 -
I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.
-- Ajay Devgan -
I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
-- Ajay Naidu -
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
-- Ajay Naidu -
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.
-- Akshay Kumar -
I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
-- Akshay Kumar -
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 -
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 -
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 -
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
-- Alain Resnais -
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 -
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
-- Alain Resnais -
I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.
-- Alain Resnais -
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 -
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
-- Alain Resnais -
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.
-- Alan Bennett -
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 -
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
-- Alan Cumming -
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.
-- Alan Cumming -
I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
-- Alan Cumming -
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.
-- Alan Parker -
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
-- Alan Parker -
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
-- Alan Parker -
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.
-- Alan Parker -
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
-- Alan Rickman -
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
-- Alan Rickman -
On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
-- Alan Rickman -
You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.
-- Alan Rudolph -
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
-- Alan Rudolph -
You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.
-- Alan Rudolph -
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.
-- Alan Tudyk -
I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
-- Albert Brooks -
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.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
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 -
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
-- Alex Cox -
No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
-- Alex Cox -
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.
-- Alex Meraz -
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
-- Alex North -
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
-- Alex North -
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 -
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.
-- Alex Prager -
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.
-- Alex Winter -
I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
-- Alexander Payne -
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 -
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
-- Alexander Payne -
I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
-- Alexander Payne -
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
-- Alexander Payne -
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 -
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 -
I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
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 -
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 -
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
