Top 1200 Film Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

I used to assist my chachaji in his artificial jewellery business. One day, I got the opportunity to visit V. Shantaram's film set to supply some jewellery. Curiosity got the better of me and before I knew it, I was playing an extra. Soon, roles with dialogues followed and the rest as they say, is history.

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.

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.

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.

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

Oswald Mosley`s movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary system of government in Britain with a government that was based on business interests, that was based on the idea that business interests were the real interests of that country and business interests. and reorganizing the government to serve business interests, that would be a way to get stuff done faster and more efficiently.

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.

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

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.

I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

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'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.

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've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

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.

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

'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.

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

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.

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 would love to make Madhuri Dixit dance. If I do a film with her, it definitely has to be a 'Madhuri Dixit film'. I don't want to cast her in a small role. I will do a full- fledged dance film with her.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm very lucky to say that I worked with a lot of directors who cannot make a bad film. Like when Wim Wenders, they cannot make a bad film. They can make a film people don't like, or it's the wrong moment.

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 crime film is the most honest American 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 never control a film. The film controls me.

Now I realize that I have to let everyone take what they have to take from the film. No matter what I think about the film, it becomes a little irrelevant. I think I would say that the film is trying to show us that - and I spoke about that earlier - we have to let the teachers invest in their own classroom. There's no use in trying to control everything. Education is fundamental.

I remember till 997th film, but after that I got so busy with multiple projects; I'm not sure which one released as my 1,000th film.

I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I'm disappointed that indie film is as hard as it is to work in now. It's hard to get things done, but that sort of work is being done on TV. That's what I do; that's what I write. It's what I love, and hopefully, that's what my future's going to be.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there.

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.

But at the same time, the film industry just got torched. The risk tolerance for the types of movies we're talking about is lower, and the reason for that is that the captains of the industry were asleep at the switch when their core business was being disrupted. And they're never getting it back. In a way, it makes it all the more exciting when the good ones get through.

I try to make each film a different film.

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.

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.

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

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

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.

At the end of the day, regardless of whether you're doing a huge budget film or a small budget film, you still want the film to do well, and have people see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message into your films, and you want people to see it.

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!

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.