Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Donner

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

Rene Russo

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

Robert Barry

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

Richard Linklater

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Richard Armitage

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

Sydney Pollack

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Sydney Pollack

You are not an active creator of the film.

Sydney Pollack

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Sylvester Stallone

I love being verbal in films.

Susan Sontag

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Taylor Hackford

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Tony Robbins

This inspiring film has the power to transform your health!

Simon Helberg

It was like in the film, when I was actually doing a take and wasn't quite sure of the context, and then in the completed film it works beautifully.In the end I didn't know why I felt so shitty doing it, and why it turns out great in the final product. I guess you have to live in that unknown.

Tippi Hedren

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

Robert Altman

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

Sonia Braga

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].

Sonia Braga

["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

Rupert Sanders

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Tom Savini

Film is a truly magical medium.

Steven Spielberg

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

Steven Spielberg

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

Steven Spielberg

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

Roman Coppola

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

Roman Polanski

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Sam Peckinpah

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

Stephen Fry

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Rick Baker

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

Tim Reid

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Tim Robbins

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

Steven Soderbergh

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

Ray William Johnson

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?

Robert Bresson

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.