Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Horovitz

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

Rohit Shetty

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

Rohit Shetty

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

Rohit Shetty

My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.

Marco Brambilla

I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

Jody Hill

Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?

Alexandra Cassavetes

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

NFL Films already has the title for one team's 2005 highlight video 'Minnesota Vikings: Naked Bootleg.'

Cary Fukunaga

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

Linda Fiorentino

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

John Abraham

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

Damien Chazelle

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Mark Gatiss

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.

(Monday), we watched films of a recent Greenwood game, and they really struggled from three-point range. They only made 30 percent of their shots, and they had trouble handling the ball.

Frank in a way was kind of like a walking Texas Film Commission. So many of those films would never have been done here if not for Frank.

Fundamentally, I think people feel that a lot of Hollywood films are retreads. People have a thirst for what's new, and documentaries feel fresh to them.

J. C. Chandor

I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

I make films on subjects which I feel strongly about.

John Abraham

I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine.

Michael Gambon

I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out.

Domhnall Gleeson

I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

Jim Jarmusch

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

I don't do as many films as I used to because I am more involved in the process.

Vince McMahon

I don't know of any performer that's worked for MGM or any other major studios who thinks he has, in some way, some right to ownership of films he's done.

Harmony Korine

I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

Doug Liman

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

Bill Plympton

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Abhishek Bachchan

I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

Christopher Nolan

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

Christopher Nolan

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.