Film Quotes
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I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
Cary Elwes
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Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
Jonathan Nolan
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I love creating bold, cinematic moments with my runway shows, so the idea of being a film director has always been appealing to me.
Tommy Hilfiger
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I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.
Hiroyuki Sanada
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There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.
Michael Pitt
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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
Carter Burwell
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
Agnes Varda
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I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.
Ruth Negga
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I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.
Seamus Dever
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Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.
Catherine Hardwicke
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The more times people laugh, the better the film is.
Declan Lowney
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You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.
Richard Pryor
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I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.
Sergio Leone
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Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
Adrien Brody
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Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
Carter Burwell
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Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."
James Cromwell
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Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.
Henry Selick
