Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marlin made lever-action rifles, but nobody ever had a Marlin in films or TV series. They were always Winchesters.

Kevin Whately

People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

Rachel Weisz

I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.

Richard King

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.

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.

Jaime Pressly

The process of doing films is not my favorite, but I love television. Television is a quicker turnaround. You shoot more during the day, which makes me feel more productive. It would be like, 'I did five scenes today and ten pages.' That's television.

Kenneth Branagh

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

Kim Jee-woon

After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Norman Jewison

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Nicholas Jarecki

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

We don't have any formal motto this year. We have many films that show a tough world the way it really is.

Allison Anders

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

Guy Pearce

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

Alden Ehrenreich

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

Gavin Hood

We grew up watching American films and I hope that Americans will watch our stories.

Arjun Rampal

Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I was offered all the time.

Aaron Paul

I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.

Alfonso Cuaron

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

Alfonso Cuaron

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.