Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mathieu Amalric

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Patricia Highsmith

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

Martin Scorsese

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

Nick Frost

I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.

Noomi Rapace

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

Morris Chestnut

California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

Michael Haneke

I consider all my films experiments.

Michael Haneke

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

Michael Haneke

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Michael Haneke

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

Michael Caine

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

Michael Apted

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Michelangelo Antonioni

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

Michel Gondry

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

Madonna Ciccone

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.

Michael Winterbottom

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

Losing all that weight really does mess up your metabolism up. After we finished filming I put on a stone in less than a week. That's not normal.

Many of the actors in these films had a glimmer of hope of being the next big thing at one point. They're still well-known enough from that spark to get name recognition.

Rohit Shetty

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

Mike Colter

Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly after that, as they thought I was right for the role, and pretty soon I was filming in Iceland for two months.

Alexandra Cassavetes

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

NFL Films already has the title for one team's 2005 highlight video 'Minnesota Vikings: Naked Bootleg.'

Damien Chazelle

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

J. C. Chandor

I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

I make films on subjects which I feel strongly about.

John Abraham

I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine.

Doug Liman

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

Mark Gatiss

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.

(Monday), we watched films of a recent Greenwood game, and they really struggled from three-point range. They only made 30 percent of their shots, and they had trouble handling the ball.

Frank in a way was kind of like a walking Texas Film Commission. So many of those films would never have been done here if not for Frank.

Fundamentally, I think people feel that a lot of Hollywood films are retreads. People have a thirst for what's new, and documentaries feel fresh to them.