Top 1200 Film Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where one goes to find some of the darker, edgier aspects of life, the film was born of grief.

Since I have spent so much time with film-makers, and I understand the process, I would love to direct a film some day.

I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

Post 'Pink,' I don't have any film which I can pick out from my filmography and say 'It would have been better if I hadn't done this film.'

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

You can be accepted in a film which is amazing, and the same person can be rejected in another film whose content does not resonate with people.

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture of supporting artists to make movies. But, on the other side, everyone still wants to make money making movies. Again, even in the European film business, it's expensive to make movies.

Back in the day, I was keen on working on a film with the superstars - Mammootty and Mohanlal. But they wanted me to make a film with them in Tamil.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.

It's not my business to think about the business; it's my business to think about the character. Sure, there have been times in my career where I wished I was more popular or more this or more that - but that's just stupid.

It's hard to make a clear line between what is political business and what is state business.

My first advice is to keep God first in everything you do. Second is stay in shape, stay ready and learn about the business because you don't want to be in a business you know nothing about, because they will take advantage of you, in this business.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation.

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.

Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.

If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right!

What eventually counts is whether your film was successful at the box-office or not, or more so if the film has made its money, and 'Race 3' did that.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity

I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen, ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film.

Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film buffs revere.

Cannes is one of the biggest film festivals across the globe, and getting your film selected for a screening is quite a big achievement.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

When you do a film like 'My Soul to Take,' and people think it sucks, that hurts. We put a lot of work into it, and it's a good film, but you go on.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film - that we're all doing this person's reel.

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.