Top Film Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Michelangelo Antonioni
A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
- Michelangelo Antonioni
Collection: Film
Image of Jonathan Demme
Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.
- Jonathan Demme
Collection: Film
Image of Michael Winterbottom
I still enjoy watching films more than making them.
- Michael Winterbottom
Collection: Film
Image of Cliff Martinez
When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
- Cliff Martinez
Collection: Film
Image of Virginie Ledoyen
And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.
- Virginie Ledoyen
Collection: Film
Image of Milos Forman
Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.
- Milos Forman
Collection: Film
Image of Terry Zwigoff
Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.
- Terry Zwigoff
Collection: Film
Image of Ritwik Ghatak
Film is not a form, it has forms
- Ritwik Ghatak
Collection: Film
Image of Claude Lelouch
Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.
- Claude Lelouch
Collection: Film
Image of William Monahan
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
- William Monahan
Collection: Film
Image of Ed Harris
I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.
- Ed Harris
Collection: Film
Image of Werner Herzog
Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Film
Image of Tom Hooper
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
- Tom Hooper
Collection: Film
Image of Ray William Johnson
What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?
- Ray William Johnson
Collection: Film
Image of Ray Harryhausen
The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.
- Ray Harryhausen
Collection: Film
Image of Ray Harryhausen
One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."
- Ray Harryhausen
Collection: Film
Image of Andrew Dominik
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.
- Andrew Dominik
Collection: Film
Image of Andrew Dominik
I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.
- Andrew Dominik
Collection: Film
Image of Tobe Hooper
The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.
- Tobe Hooper
Collection: Film
Image of Howard Shore
When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
- Howard Shore
Collection: Film
Image of Peter Jackson
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.
- Peter Jackson
Collection: Film
Image of Deniz Gamze Erguven
When you make a film, you come to say something.
- Deniz Gamze Erguven
Collection: Film
Image of Judi Shekoni
I would love to do a film in Africa.
- Judi Shekoni
Collection: Film
Image of Judi Shekoni
I would love to produce a film.
- Judi Shekoni
Collection: Film
Image of Nelly Ben Hayoun
I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.
- Nelly Ben Hayoun
Collection: Film
Image of Claudia Llosa
For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.
- Claudia Llosa
Collection: Film
Image of Christian Metz
Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.
- Christian Metz
Collection: Film
Image of Ellar Coltrane
I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.
- Ellar Coltrane
Collection: Film
Image of Kam Williams
I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.
- Kam Williams
Collection: Film
Image of Famke Janssen
Nobody sets out to make a bad film.
- Famke Janssen
Collection: Film
Image of Larry Fessenden
The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.
- Larry Fessenden
Collection: Film
Image of Ben Wheatley
Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.
- Ben Wheatley
Collection: Film
Image of Seamus McGarvey
I take every film as it comes.
- Seamus McGarvey
Collection: Film
Image of John Maus
Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a monastic life does not afford.
- John Maus
Collection: Film
Image of Aurora Guerrero
A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.
- Aurora Guerrero
Collection: Film
Image of Ondi Timoner
I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.
- Ondi Timoner
Collection: Film
Image of Kleber Mendonca Filho
Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.
- Kleber Mendonca Filho
Collection: Film
Image of Mike Leigh
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?
- Mike Leigh
Collection: Film
Image of Chika Anadu
Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
- Chika Anadu
Collection: Film
Image of Kate del Castillo
It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.
- Kate del Castillo
Collection: Film
Image of Ang Lee
I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
- Ang Lee
Collection: Film
Image of Harmony Korine
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
- Harmony Korine
Collection: Film
Image of Evan Jones
I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
- Evan Jones
Collection: Film
Image of Konnie Huq
Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.
- Konnie Huq
Collection: Film
Image of Stanley Kubrick
The best education in film is to make one
- Stanley Kubrick
Collection: Film
Image of Josh Helman
I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
- Josh Helman
Collection: Film
Image of Allan Moyle
I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.
- Allan Moyle
Collection: Film
Image of Lisa Immordino Vreeland
If you're making a film, the one thing I've learned is you have to pick somebody really well-known to make it relevant.
- Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Collection: Film
Image of Ben Drew
I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to prove that I could direct.
- Ben Drew
Collection: Film