Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delia Ephron

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

Christopher Nolan

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Christopher Walken

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

Christopher Walken

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

Christopher Walken

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Annie Proulx

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Anna Kendrick

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

Anna Kendrick

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Anna Kendrick

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

Anne Rice

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Anita Loos

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

Clint Eastwood

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Clint Eastwood

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

Clint Eastwood

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Daniel Day-Lewis

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

David Mamet

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

David Fincher

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

David Fincher

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

David Bailey

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

David Zucker

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

David Zucker

I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.

David Zucker

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

David Lynch

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

Anthony Hopkins

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

Anthony Hopkins

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Alison Bechdel

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

Chuck Palahniuk

The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.

Alfred Hitchcock

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Ang Lee

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Ang Lee

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.