Famous Quotes & Sayings

It should not have been a surprise that these films made so much money. We've seen it before and often times Hollywood forgets that.

Guy Pearce

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.

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.

Patrick Ness

If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

Debbie Allen

In the film world you don't often get much rehearsal time. Only on big-budget films do you have the opportunity to rehearse for a week or two.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Terry Zwigoff

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

Christopher McQuarrie

I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

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.

Terry Gilliam

I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year, it makes me smile.

Martin Scorsese

If one of the actors from your film is not talking on that screen in the middle of the night, there will be five other actors from five different films talking.

Sonakshi Sinha

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.

Hugh Hefner

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

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.

A lot more people are involved this year. The films are more diverse.

Sung Kang

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

John Singleton

The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.

These aren't the films that the studio are looking at.

Chris Robinson

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

These films are still very robust, but it's natural filmgoers like to see new films.