Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Robert Sean Leonard

I probably haven't even seen ten of the films I've done. I don't get a joy out of it, and I don't go to the movies.

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

in every group of films from every continent.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

Kevin Barry

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

Robert Englund

I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

Abbas Kiarostami

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

Kate Winslet

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

John Lasseter

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

Colin Trevorrow

I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good.

I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.

He's one of the last real western writers. A lot of these films he wrote were mostly westerns.

James Gray

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

Stanley Tucci

But I'd shot enough independent films as an actor, one as a director. I knew that you have to be very specific when you're shooting a period picture.

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.

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.

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

Henry Thomas

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

John Foster

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

Neill Blomkamp

I want to make a film that is commercially successful because that means that the larger cinema-going audience around the world like the movie, which is my goal. That's my job, to make films that people respond to.

Ruby Rose

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

Trey Parker

It used to reflect a budget. Now 'independent film' means anything under $10 million. That's what people are saying now. But, that's not really true. I think independent films means you did everything independently.

It will turn around. These are strong films that happen to be small. But the public still has plenty of time to find them.

Ville Valo

They'd double-booked the whole place, so at the same time, Playboy was shooting films there. So we're in this nunnery where Playboy models were hanging around, and we were talking about porn and recording a rock record pretty good combination, you know?

They cull hundreds of foreign films by new artists.

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.

Willie Brown

It's the way films ought to be done here in San Francisco,

It's one of those films that just knocks your socks off.