Famous Quotes & Sayings

If the films about anything, ... its about the right to work with some kind of dignity.

Cary Fukunaga

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

Linda Fiorentino

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

John Abraham

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

Ian Mckellen

If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

Alex Kapranos

I got recognized around the pool the other night. They were filming a party for the E! channel. It was really distressing because there were all these wanna-be celebrities. I was trying to get out of there before the Steven Seagal look-alike shook my hand, and I thought, 'Please, God, tell me I'm not of this world'.

Carly Craig

I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

Michael Gambon

I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out.

Domhnall Gleeson

I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Jennifer Lawrence

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The financing of my films has always been international.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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.

James Cameron

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

Christopher Hampton

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

Gaspard Ulliel

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

Ethel Merman

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

FKA twigs

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

Federico Fellini

I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.

Famke Janssen

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

Famke Janssen

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

F. Murray Abraham

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

Garry Winogrand

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

Cate Blanchett

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

Geoffrey Rush

I die in almost every film I've been in.

Gary Oldman

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

Christoph Waltz

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

Christine Baranski

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

Isabel Lucas

I'm really drawn to European films.

Edward Furlong

But we all kind of knew we were doing a really good movie while we were filming it.

Gangster films reflect America, and that's what Americans are most interested in.

Jean Renoir

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.