Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ang Lee

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

Ang Lee

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

Ang Lee

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

Ang Lee

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Ang Lee

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

Ang Lee

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

Ang Lee

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Amanda Seyfried

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Christopher Nolan

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Christopher Walken

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

Christopher Walken

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

Christopher Walken

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Annie Proulx

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Anna Kendrick

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

Anna Kendrick

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Anna Kendrick

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

Anne Rice

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Anita Loos

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

Anthony Hopkins

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

Anthony Hopkins

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Alison Bechdel

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

Amanda Bynes

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

Harmony Korine

I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

Alexander Payne

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

Alexander Payne

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

Alex Winter

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Alex Winter

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

Alex Winter

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

Alex Winter

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Alex Winter

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.