Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Sam Simon

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Trevor Noah

I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.

Johnny Grant

his vigor and passion for Hollywood that's just so infectious and so important.

Scott Caan

Hollywood is sort of a small, little town, and doing things like that - like writing a play or selling a script - those are the little things people see.

Nikki Sixx

We are from Hollywood, you know that's where we started.

Alex Jones

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

Richard O'Brien

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Michael O'Brien

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

Charlotte Rampling

I am fascinated by the variety of social content and political content in the films we will be judging. This is the kind of cinema I like a lot and the kind I think is very important.

Roger Ebert

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

Wim Wenders

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Stanley Tucci

I hope that a younger generation will start to watch a movie like this and start to better understand a slower pace in a truly cinematic way.

David Goyer

I had to immediately start preproduction on that, so I had to find a replacement really fast. And one of the things that we liked was that people had seen the first hour and thought it had more of a cinematic quality, so we thought we have to find a feature director to do the second hour. Who's available?

Kelli O'Hara

In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

Patrice Leconte

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

Kathryn Bigelow

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Dana Brunetti

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Todd Phillips

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Lars Trier

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Renee Zellweger

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