Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Resnais

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Al Pacino

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

Al Pacino

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

Akira Kurosawa

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Dave Barry

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Alan Rickman

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Alan Moore

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.

Alain Resnais

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Akira Kurosawa

The great appeal of film is its relatability.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

David Shapiro

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

Bryce Dallas Howard

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

Sean Dolan

We started running the numbers to see what we could cut, but we really didn't have to change much, ... I had friends in the same boat who were one payment from losing their house.

Grant Dalton

We stopped the boat and Stefano jumped in to take a look.

Rep. Reece

We want our boat industry to stay strong and viable ... because it brings a lot of sales tax dollars to Hall County.

Brad Schaefer

We were at a boat show at the Qwest Center and I tried it and liked it.

Daniele Pasca

Whether the boat you are sailing is big or small, the winds are the same. A sailor goes from one point of land to another, but in the circus we sail from one dream to another. With a smaller boat, it's easier to navigate around the icebergs.

John Morrill

We're missing the boat on a lot of cool things.

E. Hurley

We respect what they do, the job they perform. But they have these teeny-weenie boats that don't really do much.

John Metcalf

We felt it was our responsibility to do this as neighbors. These boats are big, industrial-looking boats that are used for duck hunting. They are very open and they can put stuff, people, pets, livestock or whatever they want in them.

Steve Capps

We know what the boat is worth to us. That price was too high for us.