Top 1200 Classic Films Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

Although I've watched most of Spielberg's films, I haven't watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation.

I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.

Having such a diverse cast and crew is what makes the 'Fast & Furious' films so unique to all the other studio tent pole films that just have a very singular look to them.

Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

I try to express in my films things that no other art can approach. In my monster films for example, I use special effects in the same way one would use a special film stock, a special camera, and so on. Monster films permit me to use all of these elements at the same time. They are the most visual kind of film.

I would say that all my films have more content than a 'content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

I've done so many genres of films in my career; I've done 91 films so far. But never a thriller. That's how 'Oppam' happened.

I love 'Lawrence of Arabia,' big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any of the different ways movies can be. I love the movies. I love going to the films. I like very serious films, I love foreign films, and I love big, fun movies - as long as they're well made and they've got good scripts. That's the most important thing.

Even as a teenager, my sensibility was different because my parents introduced me to some amazing films. I grew up watching films like 'Kabuliwala,' 'Casablanca,' and 'Mandi.'

From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about filmmaking. He had been deeply affected, even as a child, by great films that stretched his mind and struck into his heart, and he was eager to share them with friends and people who worked with him or with actors who were in his films.

But a lot of 'Bhavesh Joshi' comes from the 'angry young man' - the Bachchan films of the '70s or the Sunny Deol films of the '80s, where there is someone who has been wronged and wants to do the right thing.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

Some of the corporate houses are using films as a means to market their brands. They are not concerned with the storyline. When it comes to big-budget films, simple storylines told with conviction are still the safest best.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

I would love to do more Hindi films, but I am very laid-back that way and wouldn't go looking for more films.

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.

I have grown up watching Bollywood films, watching Shah Rukh Khan's films. I am happy that I worked with him.

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

I don't know anything about the film industry. I thought I knew films, but apparently, I don't know films or people!

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

I knew that all South Indian language films were first made in Chennai and that Tamil Nadu is one of the biggest film-producing centres in the country. I wanted to be part of films here.

Now Kolkata audience loves to see films from Shinoprosad Mukherjee, Srijit Mukherji, Kaushik Ganguly. But I believe the industry still depends a lot on commercial films.

Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.

One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films.

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

I like films that are about people and real, and honest films that are authentic depictions of real-world problems.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

I would love to work with Salman. I watch all his films. I loved his performance in many films.

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It's hard in the sense that it's very uncertain.

I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.