Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were thrilled to host so many wonderful films from around the world,

These are the kind of films that are the responsibility of a festival.

I've wanted to do a series on great directors, and I think the idea was, in part, to show films that have this status of great craftsmanship.

Cheryl Ladd

T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.

Charlize Theron

This year has proven to make those kind of films you don't need to make them feel like medicine, you can make them powerful and still entertaining.

Joseph Cook

We just need to market to (teenagers) through gay-straight alliances in high schools. Just tell them here are some films you might enjoy; come together as a group and join us.

James Gray

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

We show great films at very reasonable prices.

James Cromwell

The kids know me from 'Babe,' but usually it is 'L.A. Confidential' that people remember, which was the second film I did. I have worked with some really good people and the films that I've done for the most part have been good.

James Marsh

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.

John Rhys-Davies

'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.

Independent films didn't replace Hollywood blockbusters. There's room for the big MMO games, and now there's an opportunity for smaller players to get in on the market.

Independent films are very much the organic foods of the film industry. They're in their purest form, honest and straight from the heart.

Mads Mikkelsen

In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

Mark Morris

In all fairness, it's not as though the gay films lost arbitrarily. The other movies like 'Crash' -- my God, it was underrated, but my God, it was brilliant.

Ewan McGregor

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

Denholm Elliott

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.

Stephen Frears

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

The biped robots that have been proclaimed for the past 50 years in sci-fi films are now on their way.

Sung Kang

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

Rahul Kohli

I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

Neill Blomkamp

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.

Joe Swanberg

I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.

Shahid Kapoor

I ideally would like to do three films every year. Every day, I pray for it. But I should like a script before I sign on a film.

John Lasseter

I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

Sean Pertwee

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

Everyone knows USC films help launch actors' careers. USC film students know what they're doing.

Alicia Keys

Everyone on the set had been working on films for 20-plus years. I was enraptured.

Kyle MacLachlan

Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.

Billy Wilder

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (Of Television)

Judah Friedlander

I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

Dave Douglas

They're narrative films, but there's also something very experimental in the way that the narrative works. You sometimes watch one of these films and in the end you're like, what just happened? That was really funny, but I have no idea what just happened in the plot. I like that.