Famous Quotes & Sayings

Federico Fellini

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Francis Ford Coppola

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Francis Ford Coppola

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

Francis Ford Coppola

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Francis Ford Coppola

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Francis Ford Coppola

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Graham Greene

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

Halle Berry

Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

Horace

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

George Bernard Shaw

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

Gena Rowlands

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

Gena Rowlands

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Fred Durst

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

Fred Durst

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

Dito Montiel

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

Austin Butler

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

Tell me about a movie you saw and you tell me nothing about the movie but everything about yourself.

Sometimes there could be movies that are neck and neck, and that could tilt the balance.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

Rick Astley

As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

What movies have you watched the most . . .?

Samuel Larsen

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

The scandal is about video games. But we could be talking movies or television programs.

Allison Anders

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Garry Marshall

I've used opera in a lot in my movies,

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

I've never seen the first three 'Star Wars' movies. It's just not really my genre.

Sebastian Thrun

You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.

Steve Erickson

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

Charlie Tahan

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

Emmanuelle Beart

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.