300 Quotes on Film

• In every unplanned shift lies an entire universe of gems awaiting discovery; it's in these serendipitous detours that the filmmaker drafts the unauthorized adaptations of existence.

  Author: Clara Minimore

• The beauty of forgotten pathways lies not solely in where they lead, but in the reverent memories of those who once basked in their incomplete journeys.

  Author: Clara Dewhour

• Sometimes it is within the still whispers of unanticipated time that we cultivate our rarest truths.

  Author: Maya Kinsley

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  Author: Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe

• I restore poise and inspire courage jointly.

  Author: Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe

• Harmonizing sights, sounds, and textures transforms mere words into a vibrant canvas, inviting our senses to become branches of the narrative, reaching deeper than sight or sound alone.

  Author: Ava Silvers

• The art of soundless storytelling whispers to the insatiable recesses of the mind, where images dance vividly in color, liberated from discord.

  Author: Aveline Osman

• And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

  Author: David Zucker

• Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  Author: Ziyi Zhang

• In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

  Author: Renee Zellweger

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  Author: Abraham Zapruder

• Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

  Author: Abraham Zapruder

• Film, I think, is my medium.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

  Author: Rick Yune

• I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

  Author: Michael York

• It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Author: Donnie Yen

• I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

  Author: Donnie Yen

• Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

  Author: Donnie Yen

• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

  Author: Fay Wray

• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

  Author: James Woods

• The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

  Author: James Woods

• I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

  Author: James Woods

• I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

  Author: Jim Woodring

• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

  Author: Ed Wood

• I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

  Author: Robert Wise

• You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

  Author: Robert Wise

• I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

  Author: Leon Winter

• With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

  Author: Alex Winter

• The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

  Author: Marie Windsor

• But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

  Author: Terri Windling

• But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

  Author: Michelle Williams

• I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.

  Author: Fred Willard

• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

  Author: Gene Wilder

• I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

  Author: Minor White

• No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

  Author: Minor White

• When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

  Author: Shane West

• He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

  Author: Shane West

• Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

  Author: Shane West

• But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

  Author: Shane West

• Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Author: Orson Welles

• As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.

  Author: Peter Weir

• I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

  Author: Peter Weir

• National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

  Author: Peter Weir

• This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

  Author: Weegee

• People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

  Author: Weegee

• This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

  Author: Chris Wedge

• I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

  Author: Shawn Wayans

• I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

  Author: Keenen Wayans

• I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

  Author: Naomi Watts

• The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

  Author: Emily Watson

• It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

  Author: Emily Watson

• I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

  Author: Gedde Watanabe

• One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

  Author: David Warner

• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  Author: Lalla Ward

• I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

  Author: Rob Walton

• Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

  Author: Julie Walters

• I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

  Author: Julie Walters

• You can't teach creativity at film school.

  Author: Daniel Walker

• In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

  Author: Alexander Walker

• Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

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

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• 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.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• 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.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  Author: Larry Wachowski

• Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.

  Author: Larry Wachowski

• You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

  Author: Jon Voight

• I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• Music is half the film.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

  Author: Jim Varney

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

  Author: Agnes Varda

• Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

  Author: Jeff Vandermeer

• Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

  Author: Jack Valenti

• The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

  Author: Jack Valenti

• You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

  Author: Roger Vadim

• It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

  Author: Karl Urban

• I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

  Author: Karl Urban

• That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

  Author: Karl Urban

• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

  Author: Cicely Tyson

• In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

  Author: John Turturro

• If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

  Author: John Turturro

• I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

  Author: Douglas Trumbull

• It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

  Author: Douglas Trumbull

• IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

  Author: Douglas Trumbull

• There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

  Author: Douglas Trumbull

• The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• Film lovers are sick people.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

  Author: Rachel True

• Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

  Author: Rachel True

• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  Author: Rachel True

• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

  Author: Jean-Louis Trintignant

• I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

  Author: Lars Trier

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

  Author: Lars Trier

• I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

  Author: Robert Towne

• What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

  Author: Guillermo Toro

• I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

  Author: Guillermo Toro

• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Author: Mel Torme

• All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  Author: J. Thompson

• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  Author: J. Thompson

• 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

  Author: J. Thompson

• So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

  Author: John Thaw

• One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

  Author: Audrey Tautou

• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

  Author: Tilda Swinton

• You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

  Author: Patrick Swayze

• When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• 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.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• I never had a great role in a great film.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

  Author: Sherry Stringfield

• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

  Author: David Strathairn

• I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

  Author: David strathairn

• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

  Author: David Strathairn

• Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

  Author: David Strathairn

• In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

  Author: David Strathairn

• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• In any film there's always a historical implication.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

  Author: Emma Stone

• It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

  Author: Eric Stoltz

• I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

  Author: Mink Stole

• John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.

  Author: Mink Stole

• We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

  Author: James Stockdale

• I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

  Author: Sting

• There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

  Author: David Stiers

• Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

  Author: David Stiers

• Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

  Author: George Stevens

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

  Author: Hailee Steinfeld

• I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

  Author: David Steinberg

• Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  Author: Barbara Steele

• First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

  Author: Jean Stapleton

• Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

  Author: Robert Stack

• I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.

  Author: Roger Spottiswoode

• I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

  Author: Terry Southern

• The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

  Author: Terry Southern

• It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

  Author: Terry Southern

• I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

  Author: Shannyn Sossamon

• I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

  Author: Michael Smith

• I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.

  Author: Michael Smith

• In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

  Author: Mel Smith

• We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

  Author: Kurtwood Smith

• I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

  Author: Christian Slater

• After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

  Author: Christian Slater

• I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.

  Author: Jennifer Sky

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  Author: Aaron Siskind

• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Author: Gene Siskel

• I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.

  Author: Marc Singer

• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  Author: Dan Simmons

• Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

  Author: Joel Siegel

• The studio should not have released this film.

  Author: Joel Siegel

• Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!

  Author: Sylvia Sidney

• The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!

  Author: Brian Sibley

• David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

  Author: Martin Short

• While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

  Author: Dinah Sheridan

• The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

  Author: Dinah Sheridan

• It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

  Author: Dinah Sheridan

• I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• I think making a good film shot is joyful.

  Author: William Shatner

• When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

  Author: William Shatner

• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

  Author: Tony Shalhoub

• All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

  Author: Tony Shalhoub

• I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  Author: John Sexton

• There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way.

  Author: Joan Severance

• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

  Author: David Selby

• And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.

  Author: Sean Scott

• Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

  Author: Ridley Scott

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