Quotes about Films
as a people. It'sjust a human compulsion
to listen to and tell stories."
- Mychael Danna
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morning. You can't escape it.
(Shahrukh Khan)
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. Votes: 2
Jim MorrisonAudience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience. Votes: 1
Amit KalantriPeople who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose. Votes: 1
Nicole YatsonskyHollywood is full of beautiful people - but who knows how many are beautiful inside? Votes: 1
Dave AnnableWatching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date. Votes: 1
Guillermo del ToroPeople never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie. Votes: 1
Amit KalantriThe only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set Votes: 1
Federico FelliniIt's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. Votes: 1
Anthony BurgessI watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained. Votes: 0
Meshell NdegeocelloMany Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood. Votes: 0
Mithun ChakrabortyI did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot. Votes: 0
Christopher ParkerI'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.
Alexandra DaddarioI want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
Charles Martin SmithI think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
Richard LinklaterEven when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.
Alden EhrenreichI like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.
Cillian MurphyI can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.
Emily BrowningWhen I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.
Richard JenkinsI will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
Ryan PhillippeI'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
Akshay KumarIt means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Bill ForsythBlocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.
Geoff ThompsonAcross the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
Hugo WeavingThe categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.
Murray HorwitzA lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
Noah BaumbachHorror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.
Norman MailerWorking with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
Paloma FaithI never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
Daniel Day-LewisI don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.
George LucasA lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.
Hiroyuki SanadaI hate films with a clear message, ones that have their answers already when they start.
Jørgen LethI've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.
James Badge DaleThe independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
Mia WasikowskaI would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.
Mithun ChakrabortyThere are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
Molly HaskellI can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
Molly RingwaldPeople see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.
Tyler PerryMost films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
Uma ThurmanThe constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
Claude LelouchI'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
George ClooneyIt was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.
Haruki MurakamiMore women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.
Jennifer LawrenceEver since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them
Liev SchreiberI'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
Macaulay CulkinMy films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
Mary HarronIn my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.
Paul RobesonI can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
Roddy McDowallIn India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.
Shah Rukh KhanI've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
Sydney PollackI don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
Amitabh BachchanTo me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
Arthur JafaMy soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
Brigitte BardotBut you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
Dario ArgentoThere is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
Jean RenoirThe films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.
Josephine DeckerDavid Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.
Manolo BlahnikOne of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
Michael ArndtThere are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.
Phoebe CatesItd be cool to carry on doing films, but when I was a kid I wanted to be an ice cream man.
Rupert GrintI don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.
William FriedkinIn the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
Alexander PayneWell, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.
Chris HemsworthI didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.
Geraldine ChaplinIn fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
Guy RitchieI had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.
Holt McCallanyA lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show
John TurturroWhat I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.
Michael HanekeThe reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
Mike LeighI want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.
Ridley ScottAll of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.
Robert AltmanI'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
Alan ParkerI also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
Dario ArgentoFilms are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
David LynchNaina is one of the most special films & special characters that I've played in recent times
Deepika PadukoneI love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.
Eddie RedmayneI love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
John Leguizamo[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
Khaled HosseiniThere is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.
Michael SnowNovels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.
Nicholas SparksAnd there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.
Regina KingYou can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?
Timothy SpallI am inspired by the films of Pedro Almodóvar, as they are funny, sad, and extremely weird.
Volker BertelmannI'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.
Yuen Woo-pingEven though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
Zhang ZiyiIn most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
Barry WatsonI want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.
Joanne FroggattAs a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.
Jose PadilhaI don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.
Lee Van CleefThe majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
Patricia ClarksonAll I do is watch TV and films, and when I'm not doing that, I'm making them. I need a hobby!
Rebecca MaderI was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.
Tom FeltonIf I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
Werner HerzogI want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Xander BerkeleyI've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
Benicio Del ToroThere are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
Boyd HolbrookIm something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
Cary ElwesThere was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
Christopher HamptonI always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
Fede AlvarezI like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
John CusackI watched a few of Warren Beatty films when I was growing up...my Dad loved 'Heaven Can Wait.'
Lily CollinsTo see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...
Mick LaSalleIn good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
Susan SontagI did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
Brion JamesEven if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
Catherine DeneuveThe money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
Christopher EcclestonI hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.
Ed HarrisMy family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
Gemma ArtertonSo far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.
George ClooneyEver since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.
Josh HartnettI'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
Miranda JulyI like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
Sofia CoppolaIf people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
Abhishek BachchanI have watched all SRK Films . I am like a crazy fan. I have watched DDLJ and KKHH so many times
Alia BhattI like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.
Anna PaquinI am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
Claude ChabrolI feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.
Heather MatarazzoYou as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
Walter HillIn American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya SnigirI thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)
Bum PhillipsTV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
Elia KazanIt's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.
Fred MelamedArtists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.
Jacob WeisbergI'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.
Matthew FoxI feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.
Nicolas Winding RefnI reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
Nigel KnealeAll my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!
Rohit ShettyWhen I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
Sam NeillIt just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
William HurtMy films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.
Woody AllenIt's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.
Amy Sherman-PalladinoIt's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.
Claude LelouchI don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
Errol MorrisFilms are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.
Mike LeighIf I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
Mohsen MakhmalbafThere's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
Natalie PortmanMost of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.
Paul GreengrassLike mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.
Alexey SuetinMy purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness
Andrei TarkovskyI just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.
Ava DuVernayI like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.
Clint EastwoodI like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
David LynchI would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
Janet JacksonIt is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.
Louis MalleFor horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
Lynda BarryFor me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.
Rob ReinerI used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.
Samuel L. JacksonIf I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
Sean William ScottI make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
Oliver StoneWhat a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
Alex GibneyYou really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
Baz LuhrmannI think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.
Bryan CranstonI preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
Ethel MermanI like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites.
Stella VineThe only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
Stephen FrearsI like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well .
Zoe Kravitz