Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cassavetes

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

Jonas Armstrong

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Dan Gilroy

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

Cary Fukunaga

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Rod Marinelli

That was a full day for an hour of watching a man work, where I could have watched numerous films that day on other players -- and we're going to get film of that workout anyway.

Francis Coppola

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.

I think this is the year of the smaller films with independent spirits.

Mia Kirshner

I think we all have scenes where we watched and go, Oh my God. How could I do this? But you can't do that when you're filming it.

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Dirk Benedict

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.

Anthony Minghella

It is my well. I always go to Italian films to be replenished.

Heather Graham

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

Brad Anderson

I think for whatever reason, the three films I've done have been broadly categorized as romantic comedies,

Luc Besson

I'm still wet... no, no... I want to produce. I produce about three or four films a year.

Ravi Teja

I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

Jim Jarmusch

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

I don't do as many films as I used to because I am more involved in the process.

Vince McMahon

I don't know of any performer that's worked for MGM or any other major studios who thinks he has, in some way, some right to ownership of films he's done.

Harmony Korine

I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

Domhnall Gleeson

I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.

Frank in a way was kind of like a walking Texas Film Commission. So many of those films would never have been done here if not for Frank.

Fundamentally, I think people feel that a lot of Hollywood films are retreads. People have a thirst for what's new, and documentaries feel fresh to them.

Fernando Meirelles

I think, in the next two or three years, we are going to see a lot of films set in Africa, or about Africa,

David Twohy

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

J. C. Chandor

I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

I make films on subjects which I feel strongly about.

John Abraham

I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine.