Film Quotes

• I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what I make. It's sort of a pot roast, all my films.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Pot

• You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Cameras
  • Periods
  • Improvisation

• When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Journey
  • Article

• When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Mother
  • Judgment
  • Rubbish

• Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Different
  • Film
  • Doing

• The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happen

• I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Work
  • Play

• I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Dream
  • Television
  • Wells

• When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Film
  • Promoting
  • Personal Thing

• 'Drive' is definitely an inspiration because it was a film that was able to use what would normally be considered cheesy, kind of bold, electronic music choice and pull it off in a mainstream way.

  

  Adam Wingard
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Drive

• I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Film

• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Kind

• I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Star
  • Stars

• I'm planning some films in the U.K., and it will have pros and cons. It takes a lot more time to set up a film in the U.K., because you can't rely on much. In Greece, friends show up and bring what they can and you make the film. Well, that's a bit simpler than how it really is. But when you make a film with proper industries, it takes more time to synch all these things.

  

  Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Planning
  • Rely
  • Greece

• When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • People
  • Done
  • Book

• I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.

  

  Scott Foley
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Recommend

• I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

  

  William Shatner
  • Kids
  • Popcorn
  • Coke

• On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Why
  • Giving

• It's been quoted in articles and all that ?this is like A Day Without a Mexican .? That the film was prophetic.

  

  Yareli Arizmendi
  • Articles
  • Quoted
  • Prophetic

• I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Song

• I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Sides
  • Leather
  • Two Sides

• Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Mean
  • Film
  • Beautiful Woman

• There's been a lot of talk about the film it has served as an organizing tool, a kind of reference.

  

  Yareli Arizmendi
  • Tool
  • Reference
  • Organizing

• We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Done
  • Death
  • Hand

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