Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristin Scott Thomas

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

Keith Carradine

Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

Katrina Kaif

It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with a smile.

Nick Park

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Nick Moran

You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.

Mithun Chakraborty

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

Judd Apatow

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

Paul Giamatti

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

Patrice Leconte

I like films to be complete in their written form.

Patrice Leconte

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

Park Chan-wook

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

Park Chan-wook

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

Leos Carax

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Laurence Olivier

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

Ken Burns

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Ken Burns

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Olivia Thirlby

I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

Oliver Reed

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

Margaret Atwood

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

Marc Webb

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

Kathryn Bigelow

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

James Cromwell

The kids know me from 'Babe,' but usually it is 'L.A. Confidential' that people remember, which was the second film I did. I have worked with some really good people and the films that I've done for the most part have been good.

Eli Roth

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

Antonio Banderas

Films should be for everybody.

Peter Mullan

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

Quentin Tarantino

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Quentin Tarantino

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

Pocahontas

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

Minnie Driver

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Mira Nair

My films, no one else will do.

Paul Walker

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.