Top 1200 Feature Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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.

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

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

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.

The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then my job as a storyteller is done.

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I try to make each film a different film.

I was never serious about Bollywood films, but when I was offered a film like 'Shanghai,' I took it because it is a good film.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

'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.

You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it's difficult to pass.

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

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

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.

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

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

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.

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.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

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.

Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so that there is something fresh about it.

I'm not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I'm lucky enough to do the film.

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

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.

You don't set out making a film that will rake in 100 crores; you just want to make a good film.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

When I'm doing my makeup, my favorite feature to enhance is the brows. They frame your face - good eyebrows are so important.

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.

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

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

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.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

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

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

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.

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.

Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.

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.

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

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.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

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.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

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.

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

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

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.

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a film about an 'around the world' yacht race with a friend, and we spent nine months on a yacht. The film was about how people get on in confined spaces under extreme stress.

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.

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

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.