Famous Quotes & Sayings

Famke Janssen

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

F. Murray Abraham

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

Ian Mckellen

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.

Iain Glen

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

Gangster films reflect America, and that's what Americans are most interested in.

Amanda Crew

For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

Fred Durst

Directing a film is a lot of work.

Fred Durst

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

Joel Edgerton

Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.

Jack Johnson

because in the end we have found that silent films r full of sound

Everything ran perfect. Popcorn was popping. Films were rolling. All good stuff.

Brian Miller

The most successful (Austin) filmmakers are intensely loyal. The people who do well here tend not to go off to LA. They stay here.

The summer slump really put us into a shortfall. It's heartening that there were four up weekends in a row, and that we have some big films in the pipeline.

The summer slump really put us into a shortfall, ... It's heartening that there were four up weekends in a row, and that we have some big films in the pipeline.

Simon Bird

The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so many different angles. You never really do it all in one go anyway, so they just fix it all in the edit.

McG

I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else.

Chris Evans

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

Jeff Lemire

Sony is looking at 'Descender' as a franchise of films rather than just one movie.

Susan Hampshire

Television has been very kind to me, I will never knock any opportunities they give me. I've had some wonderful parts and can never be grateful enough. I've always loved doing theatre, I find it tremendously exciting. I haven't done many films but those I have done, I have loved.

The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.

Chris Van Allsburg

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

Ridley Scott

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

We've never needed two films like this more than we do now. It's the knockout punch that Hollywood needs.

We were thrilled to host so many wonderful films from around the world,

These are the kind of films that are the responsibility of a festival.

I've wanted to do a series on great directors, and I think the idea was, in part, to show films that have this status of great craftsmanship.

Cheryl Ladd

T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.

You have to improvise all the time. A lot of things come down to the last minute. It will be like that even 10 years from now when we're a huge festival. You have to wait until the last minute to get the new films, to get the filmmaker to commit, to get the actresses to commit. Because of their schedules, they're not able to tell you three months out. It's in flux even now.

Charlize Theron

This year has proven to make those kind of films you don't need to make them feel like medicine, you can make them powerful and still entertaining.

Michelle Rodriguez

When you make a film, you have to follow filmmaking rules. Like, a soundtrack... can get in the way of the serenity of the game.

Joseph Cook

We just need to market to (teenagers) through gay-straight alliances in high schools. Just tell them here are some films you might enjoy; come together as a group and join us.

James Gray

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

I shot on an off, basically, from about 4:15 until they started filming at 6. I didn't shoot non-stop during the show. I was talking to people some of the time.