Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Gray

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

John Lasseter

I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

Sean Pertwee

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

John Rhys-Davies

'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.

Independent films didn't replace Hollywood blockbusters. There's room for the big MMO games, and now there's an opportunity for smaller players to get in on the market.

Independent films are very much the organic foods of the film industry. They're in their purest form, honest and straight from the heart.

Mads Mikkelsen

In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

Mark Morris

In all fairness, it's not as though the gay films lost arbitrarily. The other movies like 'Crash' -- my God, it was underrated, but my God, it was brilliant.

Ewan McGregor

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

Patrick Ness

If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

Denholm Elliott

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.

Stephen Frears

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

Terry Gilliam

I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year, it makes me smile.

Martin Scorsese

If one of the actors from your film is not talking on that screen in the middle of the night, there will be five other actors from five different films talking.

Sonakshi Sinha

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

Billy Wilder

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (Of Television)

It should not have been a surprise that these films made so much money. We've seen it before and often times Hollywood forgets that.

Guy Pearce

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.

Debbie Allen

In the film world you don't often get much rehearsal time. Only on big-budget films do you have the opportunity to rehearse for a week or two.

I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.

Terry Zwigoff

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

Christopher McQuarrie

I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

in every group of films from every continent.

Liam Hemsworth

I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.

Stanley Tucci

But I'd shot enough independent films as an actor, one as a director. I knew that you have to be very specific when you're shooting a period picture.

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

Amanda Crew

For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

Hugh Hefner

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Robert Sean Leonard

I probably haven't even seen ten of the films I've done. I don't get a joy out of it, and I don't go to the movies.

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

Henry Thomas

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

John Foster

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.