Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

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

Alan Moore

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.

Alain Resnais

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

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.

Akira Kurosawa

The great appeal of film is its relatability.

Akira Kurosawa

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

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'd love to meet Julian [Assange], and time permitting, and his will permitting, I'm sure it will happen at some point. Even though he's been very critical of the film [The Fifth Estate], he's been very polite about me and my work, and I feel the same way about him.

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

Mohsin Hamid

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

Jolanda Schreurs

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Terry Pendleton

We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Steve Chapman

We're making light of the subject itself. And they look pretty funny. They're good conversation pieces.

Eliot Spitzer

We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule,

Paul Dergarabedian

This is a movie that's a conversation piece. People are going to be telling other people, quoting different lines and scenes. That's what's going to sustain it in the marketplace.

Trot Nixon

It's not my place to judge him. I'm sure it's difficult enough. This is a conversation that I'm not going to say much about.

Aaron Brooks

It started as a conversation, a couple of guys over at the house. It started as a conversation, but then it got kind of heated, and we called everybody over and we had a meeting about it.