Top 1200 Budget Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I’m grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.

'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

Vada Chennai 2' needs a big budget.

You don't win championships by having the cheapest budget.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

Budget: a way of going broke methodically

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge.

I like working on big budget films.

I would love to make Madhuri Dixit dance. If I do a film with her, it definitely has to be a 'Madhuri Dixit film'. I don't want to cast her in a small role. I will do a full- fledged dance film with her.

With the birth of social media, a film gets left behind if the actors don't go and present their film and energy to the public.

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

Success of a film is not only based on the film being good or bad. A lot of other factors are involved as well.

To be honest, I hadn't realised the greatness of film music till I was exposed to film songs after I started living in Mumbai.

For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.

If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers' films, it's my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

'Newton' is a very Indian film but resonates with people all across. And that's the reason it got great response at the film festivals.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

I'm very lucky to say that I worked with a lot of directors who cannot make a bad film. Like when Wim Wenders, they cannot make a bad film. They can make a film people don't like, or it's the wrong moment.

After finishing my study in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), I was mentally prepared for the struggle in the film industry.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.

I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I'm disappointed that indie film is as hard as it is to work in now. It's hard to get things done, but that sort of work is being done on TV. That's what I do; that's what I write. It's what I love, and hopefully, that's what my future's going to be.

I really discovered [Dr.Strange] through hearing about this film and first meeting Scott [Derrickson] and getting into it and just opening up and saying, "Okay, this is, like all comics, very much of its era," and my first question was, 'How do you make this film? Why do you make this film now?' and the answers were so enticing that I was like, "I'm in."

I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Now I realize that I have to let everyone take what they have to take from the film. No matter what I think about the film, it becomes a little irrelevant. I think I would say that the film is trying to show us that - and I spoke about that earlier - we have to let the teachers invest in their own classroom. There's no use in trying to control everything. Education is fundamental.

When I did my first film, I didn't have formal training; I didn't work under any director. I really didn't know how to make a film.

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

I try to make each film a different film.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget.

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

We could have a budget that brings Americans together.

I'm a film maker, not a crusader. I know a film will not change the world. If it can make a difference to a few that's good enough.

I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped.

A budget takes the fun out of money.

I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.