Film Quotes

• To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

  

  Sean Bean
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Honest

• 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

• I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some Hollywood studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • Feelings

• I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.

  

  Morena Baccarin
  • Light
  • Independent
  • Really

• ‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Film
  • Diamond

• Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • World
  • Film
  • Products

• I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
  • Art
  • Guy
  • Film

• In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Remember
  • Building
  • Memory

• I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Theatre
  • Example
  • Move

• The best education in film is to make one

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Education
  • Film

• I knew that Sylvester Stallone's involvement would outweigh everything else from the film. I think people went into Creed expecting a boxing movie and something that superficially ties Stallone in, but Creed was really well written.

  

  Bun B
  • Film
  • Sylvester Stallone`s
  • Boxing movie

• It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Done
  • Film
  • Agents

• You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

  

  Josh Hartnett
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Independent

• You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Wish
  • Feels
  • Audience

• It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Decision
  • Directors
  • Filmmaker

• Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

  

  Paul McGann
  • Film
  • Stories
  • Artifice

• I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Years
  • Wanted

• Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • People
  • Writing
  • College

• You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films. I could always do something else if I got sick of it, like draw manga, or make my own films. I found it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I'd like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • House
  • Audience
  • Sick

• There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Ideas
  • Failing
  • Filmmaker

• I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Cooking
  • Worst
  • Performing

• I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • Expression
  • Cinema
  • Contradiction

• There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Different
  • Shows
  • Connections

• With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Roles

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