Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Helman

I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.

John Milius

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

John Denver

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Francois Truffaut

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

George Clooney

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

George Clooney

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

Lloyd Kaufman

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

Logan Lerman

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

Freida Pinto

I like working on big budget films.

Maggie Siff

A day on a film set is maddening.

Joe Wright

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

Gaby Hoffmann

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

James McAvoy

It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter.

Ellar Coltrane

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

Helen McCrory

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

Heather Matarazzo

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

Jodie Foster

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

George Lucas

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

It's just gratifying the films could be shown to so many people.

David Yates

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

Willie Brown

It's the way films ought to be done here in San Francisco,

Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

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.

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

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.

Andy Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Cary Fukunaga

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

Gavin Hood

We grew up watching American films and I hope that Americans will watch our stories.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

Bill Hader

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.