Films Quotes

• I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • People
  • Live
  • Inspiration

• To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • Black
  • Films
  • Filmmaker

• The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • Constant

• I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Separate

• On student films, everyone is pitching in to do everything, and I never felt like I was a part of a group before I started acting. I always felt like I had friends in this group and I had friends in that group, but I never felt like I had my group.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Friends
  • Acting
  • Group

• Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

  

  Nigel Cole
  • Believe
  • Cynical
  • Sentimental

• I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

  

  Norman Jewison
  • Make
  • Films
  • Prizes

• I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • History
  • Teach
  • Argument

• There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Films
  • Worked

• I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Life
  • Pristine
  • Isolated figure

• Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what they did was they were willing to make mistakes. They were willing to make movies that were really bad. But they learned.

  

  Alex Stapleton
  • Mistakes
  • Learned
  • Films

• Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Judge
  • Ambitions
  • Palestine

• Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Films
  • Director

• The one worry that I always have with TV is that it's such a long commitment. You sign on to be there for a good amount of time, and then you can't go and do films and things like that.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Worry
  • Commitment
  • Films

• You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • Decisions
  • Films
  • Announcements

• I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Actor
  • Research
  • Films

• A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Values
  • Films
  • Old-fashion

• I was in awe of Robert Osborne, the man, and his incredible talent. Like everyone else, I loved watching him introduce classic films on TCM. But I was fortunate to also get to know him in real life by spending time with him and being interviewed by him over the years at events around the country.

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • Talent
  • Fortunate
  • I Loved

• On the 'X-Men' films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Ideas
  • Films
  • Collaborates

• I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music
  • Small
  • Role

• I've seen all of my mom's films. She's the reason why I do almost anything.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Reason
  • Films

• Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Simple
  • Difficult
  • To Do

• I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.

  

  Michael Pena
  • Want
  • Films
  • Alien

• A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.

  

  Andrew Haigh
  • Gay
  • Films
  • Audiences

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