Quotes on Film

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

Author: Aaliyah

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

Author: Victoria Abril

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Author: Robert Adams

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

Author: Sasha Alexander

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

Author: Robert Altman

It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.

Author: Anthony Anderson

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Author: Kenneth Anger

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Author: Michelangelo Antonioni

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

Author: Dario Argento

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

Author: Adam Arkin

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

Author: Adam Arkin

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

Author: Will Arnett

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

Author: David Arquette

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

Author: Armand Assante

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

Author: David Attenborough

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

Author: Richard Attenborough

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

Author: Bille August

I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

Author: Kevin Bacon

Film has to describe and show.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Author: Christine Baranski

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

Author: Todd Barry

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

Author: Sean Bean

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

Author: Sean Bean

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

Author: Kabir Bedi

You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

Author: Kabir Bedi

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Author: Dirk Benedict

When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.

Author: Andre Benjamin

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Author: Robert Benton

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Author: Bruce Beresford

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Author: Bruce Beresford

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

Author: Elmer Bernstein

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

Author: Juliette Binoche

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

Author: Juliette Binoche

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

Author: Orlando Bloom

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

Author: Don Bluth

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

Author: Eric Bogosian

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

Author: Uwe Boll

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Author: Joseph Bologna

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Author: Lisa Bonet

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Author: Jan Bont

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

Author: Andre Braugher

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

Author: Beau Bridges

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

Author: Albert Brooks

The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.

Author: Chester Brown

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Author: Ken Burns

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

Author: Ken Burns

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

Author: Ellen Burstyn

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

Author: Ellen Burstyn

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Author: Carter Burwell

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Author: Carter Burwell

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Author: Gerard Butler

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

Author: Simon Callow

And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.

Author: Trishelle Cannatella

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

Author: Marcel Carne

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

Author: Leslie Caron

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

Author: Leslie Caron

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Author: James Caviezel

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

Author: Jim Caviezel

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

Author: Claude Chabrol

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

Author: Sarah Chalke

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

Author: Chevy Chase

This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.

Author: Morris Chestnut

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

Author: Julie Christie

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

Author: Patricia Clarkson

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

Author: John Cleese

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.

Author: George Clooney

No two directors make the same film the same way.

Author: Rob Cohen

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

Author: Robert Conrad

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

Author: Chris Cooper

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Author: Francis Coppola

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

Author: Francis Coppola

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

Author: Roger Corman

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

Author: Kevin Costner

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

Author: Alex Cox

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

Author: Alex Cox

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

Author: David Cronenberg

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

Author: Marton Csokas

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

Author: Kieran Culkin

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

Author: Alan Cumming

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

Author: Willem Dafoe

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

Author: Beatrice Dalle

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Author: Timothy Dalton

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Author: Frank Darabont

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

Author: Laura Dern

I've always loved film more than theater.

Author: Laura Dern

So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!

Author: Ajay Devgan

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

Author: Ajay Devgan

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Author: Cameron Diaz

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

Author: Eric Dickerson

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Author: Marlene Dietrich

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

Author: Richard Donner

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

Author: Richard Donner

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

Author: Stephen Dorff

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

Author: Brad Dourif

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Author: Anne Dudley

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

Author: Aaron Eckhart

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Author: Ben Edwards

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

Author: Atom Egoyan

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Author: Sergei Eisenstein

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

Author: Danny Elfman

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

Author: Danny Elfman

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

Author: Danny Elfman

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Author: Danny Elfman

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

Author: Mike Epps

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

Author: Omar Epps

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

Author: Siobhan Fahey

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.

Author: Richard Farnsworth

I always approach film as a fan.

Author: Michael Fassbender

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Author: Federico Fellini

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Author: Federico Fellini

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

Author: Tom Felton

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

Author: Albert Finney

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Author: Milos Forman

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Author: Jodie Foster

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Author: Jodie Foster

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

Author: John Foster

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Author: Jim Fowler

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Author: Michael Fox

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Author: James Franco

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

Author: Brendan Fraser

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Author: Stephen Fry

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Author: Lady Gaga

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

Author: Charlotte Gainsbourg

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

Author: Daryl Gates

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Author: Sarah Gellar

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.

Author: Gil Gerard

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

Author: Richard Gere

I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film.

Author: Gina Gershon

I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

Author: Tyrese Gibson

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!

Author: Terry Gilliam

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

Author: David Ginola

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.

Author: David Ginola

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Author: Samuel Goldwyn

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.

Author: Lesley Gore

I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.

Author: Ryan Gosling

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

Author: Jonny Greenwood

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Author: Rupert Grint

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

Author: Rupert Grint

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

Author: Justin Guarini

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

Author: Val Guest

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Author: Steve Guttenberg