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.

Daniel Radcliffe

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

Douglas Horton

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Davy Jones

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Davy Jones

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

David Chase

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

Piero Grasso

With this arrest, the Mafia has been beheaded.

James Carafano

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

Gerald Celente

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Fidel Castro

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.