Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Osborne

Most of those big movies are not that wonderful. This trend toward honoring smaller films ù it's a very healthy one.

Roger Ebert

The reason (Burton) wanted to make 'Ed Wood' is that Ed Wood had so much fun making movies. And that's where Ed Wood and Tim Burton connect. Tim Burton makes films that are a lot better, but he doesn't make them with any more love.

When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

We used to watch some very good Hindi films made in those days.

Many of the actors in these films had a glimmer of hope of being the next big thing at one point. They're still well-known enough from that spark to get name recognition.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

Bill Hader

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

David R. Ellis

So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.

Francis Lawrence

I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.

Emilia Fox

I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.

Ira Sachs

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Ira Sachs

I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.

Nico Mirallegro

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

Luke Evans

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema.

I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.

Neil Marshall

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

Yuvraj Singh

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

Alex Pettyfer

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.

Andrea Arnold

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

Leonard Maltin

Tim pays homage to Ray Harryhausen and George Pal and people whose films he saw growing up and who also used this technique.

Joel Silver

This story is more important now than ever. But movies are made to make money. So if people go to films like this, we'll see more of them.

Salman Khan

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

Olivia De Havilland

If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

Om Puri

I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

Olly Murs

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

Gregory Hines

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

George Hickenlooper

Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

Walter Salles

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

Brad Pitt

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

Ted Sarandos

David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

Nadine Velazquez

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

Mira Nair

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.