Ismail Merchant Quotes
Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.Ismail Merchant
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Johnson -
Film has to describe and show.
Ralph Bakshi -
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
Hansika Motwani -
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
J. C. Chandor -
I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
Mahesh Babu -
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Aaron Eckhart -
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
Natalie Dormer -
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
Haile Gebrselassie -
When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
Edgar Wright -
I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
Kabir Bedi -
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
Iain Glen
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
Ed Oxenbould -
Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
Wanda Jackson -
A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
Florence Henderson -
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman -
'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
Ram Charan
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
Baz Luhrmann -
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
Kevin Spacey -
You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.
Bill Clinton -
I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.
Satpal Maharaj -
Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.
Ismail Merchant