Top 1200 Classic Films Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

My holidays in Hyderabad would be spent on films sets visiting my father and uncle, or in the studios; I was gradually drawn to films.

It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I made some films and thought about films, but then I went into writing. Becket is something that's definitely on the cards. We have to see where that fits in the schedule, because it's a big picture and I have a lot of writing obligations at the moment. I'm wary of anything with a budget over a certain amount.

It becomes important to do the right films, than do 10 films in a year. You may do it once, but it'll never happen again.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?

Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to put into the films.

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English.

I made so many films I thought were great and they turned out horrible, and I made films I did not believe in at all, and 'Shadow Of The Vampire' was one of these films I did not believe in during the shooting. And then when I saw it I was surprised what they had made out of it. They edited for quite a long time.

So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. But for me as a director, my attitude towards making films hasn't changed with the fame. I feel it's not good to change as a person anyway

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

Nagpur was a very small town. There was no exposure to different kinds of films or world cinema. Only Manmohan Desai films.

I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic DNA.

I have to tell you this - as a teenager, I never used to see any horror films till I started acting in films.

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

In my films, they say the action sequences are very local and not international. But why should I copy from English films?

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

Since most of our films cater to crossover audiences, I think it's time we make films for multilingual viewers.

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool' and other films.

I've made over 220 films. Of these 220 films, 100 films are not good, 50 are okay, and 50 are very good.

Apoorva Raagangal,' 'Moondru Mudichu,' 'Avargal' - these were all my guru K. Balachander's films; I became a hero with these three films.

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

I request big films to give way for small movies as there are umpteen number of such films waiting to see the light of the day.

I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

I cannot do more than two films at a time. I like to have a life besides films. That is very important to me.

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.'

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

I was already in the industry as a costume designer and opportunities to act in films came naturally. I must have designed costumes for over 100 films.

Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

I don't watch my old films. It's over and done with. I'm proud of my films, but who watches their movies after 20 years?

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

When people watch good films they want other films to be of that calibre as well particularly when you cater to the same core audience.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

If the audience shows that it is interested in films portraying strong women, then the producers will be tempted to make such films.

I love Rajkumar Hirani's films. I saw 'PK,' and I didn't like it much... But I loved his previous three films.

I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.

To be honest, my friends weren't really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me.

There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

My son does enjoy my action films. But the women in my family would be happier if I did socially relevant films.

In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But now there are more documentaries and more films in general being released than ever before. There are weeks when the New York Times is reviewing 15 films, so it's harder to leave an impression on the public. A lot of these films are seeing their financial future on digital platforms. Because viewers aren't hearing as much about films in theatrical release, I think the festival circuit is going to have increasing importance for the life of a film.