Top 1200 Film Star Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

Doing a 'Star Wars' TV show could be prohibitively expensive because 'Star Wars' requires a lot of prop building and a lot of character building, so we wanted to - with ILM's help - be able to make it a financially viable option to solve all the problems that you have with shooting a blue screen environment.

'Rogue One' does not feel like a 'Star Wars' movie. There are no scrolling yellow letters. There is no classic John Williams score. It feels like a movie of a different type set in the 'Star Wars' universe, a movie where there is no magic to save you. It is not a movie for children.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.

Usually when I make a record, I know what the potential is going to be, but I didn't know that 'Just A Friend' was going to be that big. 'Just A Friend' opened a world up where I never knew the difference between being a pop star and a regular rap star. It was crazy.

Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.

Priyanka Chopra has produced a Marathi film. Even John Abraham announced he wants to make a Marathi film. Suddenly everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. Shah Rukh, Rohit Shetty also want to do a Marathi film. There is an awareness. But I hope they don't come and spoil the market by making their kind of cinema.

When 'Aashiqui' was released nobody knew that it will be such a good film... it is a cult film.

My goal is not to make a 100 crore film but a film which has got content.

I was part of the Bollywood film 'Strikers,' which I would call a niche film.

When I was younger, I definitely thought musical theater was sort of more pure than film. I used to say I'd never go to film because we had to get it right the first time in musical theater. But then, of course, I started doing film and realized I loved it. Keep in mind that I was 8 years old when I said that.

A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film.

I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary heroes and morality plays and stuff. And 'Star Trek' is just pure fun. Pure science fun. And I've always appreciated both.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

I have always believed that the choice of your second film is as important as you first film.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

In India, multiplex ticket prices are high; therefore people are a bit hesitant. The ticket price for a newcomer's film is the same as a Shah Rukh Khan or a Salman Khan film. Why would people pay, say Rs 400, for a newcomer's film when they can watch a Shah Rukh Khan film at the same price?

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

I naively thought I was making a low-budget movie. But, when the film came out, the Daily Variety reviewer at that time who was named Art Murphy described it as an exploitation film. I had never heard that term before. Roger never used it. So that's how I learned that I had made an exploitation film.

When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

'Paruthiveeran' was a difficult film to work on. It was my first film but a very strong character.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

The first film I gave music for was a Bengali film called 'Dadu.'

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

No one knows which film will be a hit or flop. Film making is a gamble.

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

I like all kinds of films; 'Bommarillu' is a favourite film. But I can't make that kind of film.

I would never refuse a film or do a film for a certain amount of money.

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

Whatever film you do, even if it's a children's film, you do with the same amount of sincerity.

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

Back in the '80s filmmakers would freeze moments when an action star would leap or jump from a tall building just to tell us that it was the star who did it and not his duplicate. And then I became an actor myself and got the chance to work with some incredible actors who specialized in doing action cuts.

I don't know what it means to be a star because I don't really look at myself like a star. I look at myself as a regular person, just like everybody else. I just love what I do.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

I want people to think that if I'm in a film, then that film definitely has good content.

The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you're in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn't it?

Tamil films have to be faster than a Malayalam film but not as fast as a Hindi film.

As a film-maker, I enjoy telling stories, and every film has its own journey.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of startups using computer vision for agriculture or shopping - there are a lot for clothes shopping. At Baidu, for example, if you find a picture of a movie star, we actually use facial recognition to identify that movie star and then tell you things like their age and hobbies.

I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.

If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film.

My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.