Film Quotes

"When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved."

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress

Film, First, Thinking

11

"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Film, First

9

"I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film."

John Schlesinger, British Director

Film, Help, Party

7

"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."

Karel Reisz, Czechoslovakian Director

Film, Minority

6

"Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined."

Bruce Beresford, Australian Director

Film,

5

"Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film."

Abraham Zapruder, Ukrainian Businessman

Film,

5

"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Film, First

5

"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."

Lars von Trier, Danish Director

Film, School

5

"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Film, Eye, Horror

5

"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Film,

5

"I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth."

Mira Nair, Indian Director

Film, First

4

"Well I think effects are tools."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Film, Tools

4

"I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California."

Thuy Trang, Vietnamese Actress

Film, Flying, Want, Will

4

"Language is much closer to film than painting is."

Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian Director

Film, Language, Painting

3

"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."

Weegee, American Photographer

Film, Nothing

2

"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."

Renny Harlin, Finnish Director

Film, Living

1

"And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Film, Reason, Romantic

1

"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."

Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director

Film, State

1

"You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it."

Alan Rudolph, American Director

Film,

1

"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."

Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist

Film,

1

"Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique."

David Lean, British Director

Film, Job, Reality

1

"How would you like to find out how good my right is?"

Sonny Liston, American Athlete

Film, Right

1

"I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one."

Jay Roach, American Director

Film, First

1

"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

Film, First

1

"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"

Terry Gilliam, American Director

Film, First

1

"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."

Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist

Film, Help

1

"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Film,

1

"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Film, Future

1

"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."

Kenneth Anger, American Author

Film, Speech

1

"If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart."

George A. Romero, American Director

Film, Hollywood, Succeed

"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."

Helen Mirren, British Actress

Film,

"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."

Guy Ritchie, British Director

Film, Job

"I always approach film as a fan."

Michael Fassbender, German Actor

Film,

"I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck."

Joshua Leonard, American Actor

Film, Luck, Project

"The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Film, Meaning

"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."

Simon Callow, English Actor

Film, Years

"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."

Sherry Stringfield, American Actress

Film, Years

"There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film."

Ben Edwards, British Entertainer

Film, Reality

"Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position."

Gary Oldman, English Actor

Film, Trying

"Film has to describe and show."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

Film,

"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."

Tim Robbins, American Actor

Film,

"What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year."

Piper Perabo, American Actress

Film, Rest, Theater

"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."

Alain Resnais, French Director

Film, Singing

"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."

Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist

Film, Harmony

"On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries."

Lukas Haas, American Actor

Film,

"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."

Gerard Butler, Scottish Actor

Film,

"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."

Will Arnett, Canadian Actor

Film, First, canal

"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."

George A. Romero, American Director

Film, Horror

"To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name."

Ajay Devgan, Indian Actor

Film, Name

"I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film."

David Ginola, French Athlete

Film, Horror

"When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved."

11

"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."

9

"I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film."

7

"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."

6

"Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined."

5

"Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film."

5

"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."

5

"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."

5

"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror."

5

"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."

5

"I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth."

4

"Well I think effects are tools."

4

"I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California."

4

"Language is much closer to film than painting is."

3

"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."

2

"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."

1

"And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."

1

"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."

1

"You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it."

1

"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."

1

"Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique."

1

"How would you like to find out how good my right is?"

1

"I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one."

1

"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

1

"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"

1

"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."

1

"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."

1

"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."

1

"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."

1

"If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart."

​

"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."

​

"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."

​

"I always approach film as a fan."

​

"I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck."

​

"The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move."

​

"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."

​

"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."

​

"There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film."

​

"Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position."

​

"Film has to describe and show."