Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leos Carax

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Laurence Olivier

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

Idris Elba

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

Keith Carradine

Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

Katrina Kaif

It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with a smile.

Ken Burns

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Ken Burns

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Randy Newman

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

Ralph Bakshi

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

Sienna Miller

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

Sienna Miller

Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.

Scott Speedman

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

Ray Allen

Would I do it again? Film another movie? Oh yeah.

Tom Cruise

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

Tobe Hooper

The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut.

Skitch Henderson

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

Sofia Coppola

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

Michael Sheen

I've always loved animation and animated films.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life.

Michael Moore

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

Neil Jordan

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

Nick Frost

I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.

Noomi Rapace

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

Morris Chestnut

California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

Mathieu Amalric

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Patricia Highsmith

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

Martin Scorsese

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Matthew Vaughn

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

Matthew Lillard

I like doing family films.

Michael Haneke

I consider all my films experiments.

Michael Haneke

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.