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.

Ludivine Sagnier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

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.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Nikki Cox

Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Agnes Obel

I love the conversation between film and music.

Agnes Varda

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

Chevy Chase

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

Billy Wilder

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Bob Hoskins

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Norman Jewison

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Nicholas Jarecki

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Andy Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

We don't have any formal motto this year. We have many films that show a tough world the way it really is.

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

Bryce Dallas Howard

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

Cary Fukunaga

I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.

Ed Harris

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.