Top 1200 Classic Films Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it.

I collect Gottlieb games, and I play classic pinball.

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.

I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

When I started, there were no Indians on television or films, except for Sir Ben Kingsley. I was an actor in high school, college, and I played leads. And when I graduated, I knew that I couldn't go to Hollywood and audition for shows or films. I could try, but where was the evidence that it was going to happen?

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.

To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

Having grown up watching my father direct films and having worked with him and my brother, I know how films are made, how shots are taken.

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing.

I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best.

If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.

I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I find the opposite's the case.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

I love the classic marble inlay work of Arga.

I'm into classic rock, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

Ground turkey is fantastic in a comforting classic - meatloaf.

I love Christy Turlington in the '80s and '90s. Classic.

Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.

There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.

Nora Ephron's 'When Harry Met Sally' is a classic.

When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.

I usually try to wear stuff that is versatile, pretty classic.

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Anytime you get action legends together, it has to be a classic.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

My mother never told me anything, she is just concerned about my happiness. She only watches my shows, not my films. In fact, we never discuss films.

I am not in a position to play in action films bashing hundreds of goons with one hand. I feel I am not really fit for high-voltage action films.

My mother has been in films for 50 years. She is very insightful. She has been invaluable to me in choosing films and other routine things.

I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

After watching Guru Dutt's films, I became a huge fan of Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry and the songs of Guru Dutt's films.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.