Top 1200 Classic Films Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I would rather talk about films that I did than the films that I didn't do.

When I was working in south films, I never understood how films were made.

All these years, I have handpicked my films. It was passion and love for the art that made me do films.

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

I like to do realistic films as well as sensible humourous subjects, just because I think these films are only capable to attract people to the theatres. Though I agree that serious movies are also good and I like to watch them, it is a fact that majority of the people are hesitant to go to theatres for those films.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films.

I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

I watch a lot of Malayalam films and admire them greatly. The films have such wonderful content.

At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

I have to do films for myself, films that make me learn. I also have to be an entertainer.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

I love being able to change from big films to small films.

I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

Even today, I'm not sure why I make films or what makes me want films. I think it's other people's films. Whenever I see a really great film, I think, 'I want to make a film like that.' And then I never do.

I go to a lot of independents and foreign films. I really try to keep up and see what there is to see. If you really love movies, it's the act of watching them that you really love. You can sit and watch a B-Western and have just as much fun watching that as you can a classic. That minute when the lights go down is the part where the magic happens, because you know this could be great. You're always kind of excited, like, "Here I am again in the church of movies, and Mass is starting.".

I have always wanted to do Gujarati films but I wasn't offered any good films.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

My goal is that my films should at least match up to my previous films if not be more.

I never directly think of certain films. I know I am influenced by all the films I see.

I want to do more films because if you do a lot of films, you become a better actor.

I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.

I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they've seen before.

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

I would definitely love to do Hindi films but I'll choose films carefully.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

I was lucky to get really good films, even though I don't have 100 films in my resume.

I was inspired by Maya Deren because she was the first woman filmmaker whose films I saw. I also loved Fellini and Goddard because they were so different from Hollywood films. But when I saw the cinema verite films that were made by Drew Associates with Leacock and Pennebaker I found my passion.

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.

I fell in love with films only two years after working in films.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

If you compare TV and films, the success ratio of television is higher than films.

I believe you need films like that - feel-good, breezy films that families can watch.

I did a lot of short films before doing feature films.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

All the films that I have signed or I intend to sign are purely on the basis of merit of what the films are about.

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.