Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.

Roger Ebert

The reason (Burton) wanted to make 'Ed Wood' is that Ed Wood had so much fun making movies. And that's where Ed Wood and Tim Burton connect. Tim Burton makes films that are a lot better, but he doesn't make them with any more love.

Kenneth Branagh

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

Kim Jee-woon

After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.

When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

We used to watch some very good Hindi films made in those days.

Nadine Velazquez

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

Mira Nair

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

Corbin Bernsen

I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films.

Djimon Hounsou

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

Nick Park

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

Nick Park

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

Tuppence Middleton

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

Todd Haynes

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

Scott Adkins

I'll be honest - I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.

Yuvraj Singh

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

Alex Pettyfer

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.

Andrea Arnold

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

Bruce Willis

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

George Hickenlooper

Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

Walter Salles

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

Brad Pitt

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

Ted Sarandos

David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

Otto Preminger

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

Leonard Maltin

Tim pays homage to Ray Harryhausen and George Pal and people whose films he saw growing up and who also used this technique.

Joel Silver

This story is more important now than ever. But movies are made to make money. So if people go to films like this, we'll see more of them.

Salman Khan

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

Olivia De Havilland

If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

Om Puri

I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

Olly Murs

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.