Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
Sam Jaeger -
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
Dan Aykroyd -
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 -
I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
Fionn Whitehead -
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Orson Welles -
I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
Mahesh Babu
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
Parker Posey -
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
A. R. Rahman -
My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
Samantha Morton -
I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
Hansika Motwani -
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
Ian Hart -
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
Lance Henriksen
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
Edgar Wright -
I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
Daisy Ridley -
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
Camille Paglia -
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith -
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 -
Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.
D. J. Cotrona
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. Salinger -
One really important thing is to have good friends and family that will be there to help you when the hard times come. Because bad times do come, for everyone, at some point. The good part is, the bad times don't last forever.
Dave Smalley -
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
Victoria Principal -
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.
Homer -
In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf