Film Quotes

• Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • People
  • Interest
  • Grateful

• It film-making really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Way
  • End
  • Phantoms

• I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Stills

• They still put you in a room with these people who apparently have no difference whether you're making a family driven show or otherwise. But I do realize it's very sad to me. This is the first film Oz The Great that I've done that's not R rated. It's a really weird connection.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Family
  • Oz the Great
  • Driven show

• Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

  

  Tommy Davidson
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Jobs

• But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Film
  • Should
  • Snooping

• When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Film
  • Director
  • Tune

• In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Heard
  • Lines
  • Love Story

• I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

  

  Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
  • Women
  • Film
  • Portraits

• I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.

  

  Hannes Holm
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Odd way

• I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Obvious

• A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

  

  Eva Green
  • Character
  • Script
  • My Heart

• Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Theatre
  • Plans
  • Periods

• I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Ideas

• I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

  

  Steve Martin
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Loser

• Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

  

  Steven Shainberg
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Exist

• The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

  

  Sydney Pollack
  • Film
  • Failure
  • Reasons

• I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Comedy
  • Quality
  • Tennis

• My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one Once Upon a Time in America.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • America
  • Film
  • Lasts

• Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Brain
  • Theory
  • Balls

• As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Function

• You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Aspect

• A film is a portrait of an aspect of society.

  

  Nick Broomfield
  • Society
  • Film
  • Portrait

• That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Romantic
  • Normal
  • Classic

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