Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Tucci

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

Stanley Kubrick

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Stanley Kubrick

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanley Kubrick

The best education in film is to make one

Woody Allen

My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

Woody Allen

The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

William Shatner

I'm anxious to make another film.

Rodney King

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

Robert Redford

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

Robert Redford

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

Richard Ayoade

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.

Renee Zellweger

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Robert Barry

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

Richard Linklater

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Richard Rossi

My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong.

Ray Winstone

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

Sandra Bullock

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Roger Moore

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

Roger Ebert

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

Roger Ebert

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

Roger Ebert

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Roger Ebert

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Roger Ebert

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

Sanaa Lathan

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

Winona Ryder

If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.

Wole Soyinka

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

William H. Macy

One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.

Werner Herzog

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.

Werner Herzog

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Werner Herzog

There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

Werner Herzog

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Werner Herzog

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Samuel Fuller

Film is a battleground.