Famous Quotes & Sayings

James McAvoy

It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter.

John Milius

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

John Denver

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Francois Truffaut

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

George Clooney

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

George Clooney

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

Kevin Smith

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

Kevin Spacey

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Lloyd Kaufman

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

Logan Lerman

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

Logan Lerman

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

Freida Pinto

I like working on big budget films.

Maggie Siff

A day on a film set is maddening.

Orson Welles

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

Emilio Estevez

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

Helen McCrory

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

Heather Matarazzo

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

Joe Wright

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

Benjamin Bratt

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Hideo Kojima

To be honest, my friends weren't really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me.

Steve Sabol

How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'

Russell Crowe

No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen.

Mike Birbiglia

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

David Ayer

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

Distributors and filmmakers like me can see their films with real human beings.

Nicolas Cage

The Weather Man ... films with more serious themes get more attention.

Tina Knowles

They've been filming up to 4 a.m. many nights. She's in every scene. I'll be glad when it's over.

Michael Ware

They've been filming this stuff from the beginning.

A lot more people are involved this year. The films are more diverse.

Sung Kang

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

Mark Lester

They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.'

Salli Richardson

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'