Film Quotes

• The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

  

  Ving Rhames
  • Quality
  • Differences
  • Dinner

• The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Great
  • Art
  • Soul

• Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Film
  • Cameras

• 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

• Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Understand
  • Vampire
  • Supposed

• [I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Work
  • Film
  • Performances

• 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Movie
  • Favorite
  • Watch

• I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that resonate with what our lives are about. I think people really want to know... want to share, want to have the stimulus to think and care about the way they live their lives, the way they relate to other people, their aspirations, their hopes, et cetera.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Care
  • Novel
  • Share

• I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Political
  • Care
  • Worry

• 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 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

• For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Form
  • Actually

• Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Great
  • Painting

• I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Film
  • Better
  • Television

• There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Great
  • Competition
  • Role

• I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Film
  • Surrounded
  • Trailers

• 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

• Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Experience
  • Dark
  • Director

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

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Different
  • Film
  • Doing

• 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

• In any film there's always a historical implication.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Always
  • Film
  • Historical

• 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

• Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Live
  • Months

• 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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