I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier. Votes: 3
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of YardleyI didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film. Votes: 3
Philip Seymour HoffmanWhen you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.
Matthew William GoodeFilm school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
Paul Thomas AndersonFilm is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.
Patrick DemarchelierThe biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it's not all about him.
Benedict CumberbatchIn film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
Charles Keating, Jr.When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
Mario Van PeeblesUnless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.
Andreas FeiningerJenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.
Nicolas Winding RefnI don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
Peter GreenawayI'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.
Vanessa ParadisUsually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
Billy Bob ThorntonI like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.
Cillian MurphyEven in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
Jack NicholsonWhen you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
Juliette BinocheWho says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.
Langdon WinnerThe film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.
Peter HambletonThe fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.
Asghar FarhadiThe calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
Emilia ClarkeIf you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.
Evangeline LillyI always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.
Freddie HighmoreIts always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.
Holliday GraingerI suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.
Jack NicholsonIt's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.
Jennifer Yuh NelsonThere are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.
Kiefer SutherlandI think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.
Nash EdgertonRecently, I've been loving Monster Hunter! A film conversion is currently in planning.
Paul W. S. AndersonIf you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
Werner HerzogI think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.
Bella HeathcoteYou have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
Cate BlanchettI was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him
Christian SlaterWithout chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.
Clint WalkerEven if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
Gus Van SantThis film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.
Jennifer LopezIf a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice LeconteThe film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
Walter BenjaminI would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
Werner HerzogWenn ein Film Erfolg hat, ist er ein Geschäft. Wenn er keinen Erfolg hat, ist er Kunst.
Ponti, CarloI knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.
Alicia SilverstoneI never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.
Alicia VikanderI couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
Ava GardnerCrewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
Ben MendelsohnFilm is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
Christopher NolanI've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
Hiroyuki SanadaEveryone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.
Jay DuplassA lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
Michael WinterbottomI always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.
Noomi RapaceYou tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.
Peter WebberIt was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.
Rudolf BuitendachExtending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.
Samuel FullerI was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.
Steven SebringAnother thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
Steven SoderberghThe film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.
Chloe SevignyThere are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.
Christopher LeeI've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
Cliff MartinezYou never know when the publicity people will feel it is a good time to release the film.
Colm MeaneyTo me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.
Dito MontielTo me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
Ellen BurstynOn film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.
Geena DavisYou could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.
Helen Mirren