Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Goddard

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

Amber Benson

I can't wait to speak with the filmmaker when he comes,

Abbas Kiarostami

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

Kate Winslet

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

John Lasseter

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

Colin Trevorrow

I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good.

I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.

He's one of the last real western writers. A lot of these films he wrote were mostly westerns.

However, my first goal as a filmmaker is to have something to say.

James Gray

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

Isabella Rossellini

I always loved experimenting in film.

Ira Sachs

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

Isabel Lucas

I'm really drawn to European films.

Edward Furlong

But we all kind of knew we were doing a really good movie while we were filming it.

Stanley Tucci

But I'd shot enough independent films as an actor, one as a director. I knew that you have to be very specific when you're shooting a period picture.

Guy Ritchie

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Gwyneth Paltrow

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Reggie Lee

I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class.

Terry Zwigoff

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

Christopher McQuarrie

I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place.

Hugh Hefner

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Joe Carnahan

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

Henry Thomas

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

John Foster

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

Ingmar Bergman

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

Sunny Mabrey

It was really weird for me filming in New York, because I was born and raised there. I started acting and modeling when I was five or six, so I worked there.

Christopher Eccleston

It must be heartbreaking for a filmmaker to actually start something like that. And then to have some terrible, terrible weather problems.

Neill Blomkamp

I want to make a film that is commercially successful because that means that the larger cinema-going audience around the world like the movie, which is my goal. That's my job, to make films that people respond to.

Ruby Rose

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

Trey Parker

It used to reflect a budget. Now 'independent film' means anything under $10 million. That's what people are saying now. But, that's not really true. I think independent films means you did everything independently.

It will turn around. These are strong films that happen to be small. But the public still has plenty of time to find them.