Top 1200 Film Star Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I look back, there isn't a single film that I would disown becaus,e with every film, I've learnt a lot.

I have realised that it has become essential to promote your film. God forbid, if a film doesn't run, I shouldn't be blamed for that.

I've read both books that 'Beautiful Boy' is based on, and I can't wait to see that film. I root for that film.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

It might be the most inspiring film in the world, but if I do not like it I will not do it. I have to believe in the film to take it up.

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

My biggest goal was that I have to land a film. Landing a film with Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar... it doesn't happen.

'How To Train your Dragon 2' is an amazing film. I think it's an extraordinary film. The animation in it is fantastic.

I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

Whenever I'm offered a film, I think of a Friday and ask myself if I would go and watch that film or not.

The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.

I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

I do consider myself a film geek. I love television and film.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

I think, in the South, I can do it, especially in the Kannada film industry. I am popular enough to do a woman-centric film there.

If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

Film is a very specific world in which I don't think you really need to go to film school.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Sometimes it takes time to become part of the collective unconscious, just like 'Fanboys' did. Going into that movie, I said to myself that if you were a 'Star Wars' fan, you were going to love that movie. It's an homage to everything science-fiction, but especially 'Star Wars.'

Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn’t know anybody, I wanted to dance, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do all those things, I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.

When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

The film The Conquest will be seen on many different levels and the American point of view is always more technical. The French are less technical - it's 'I like it, or I don't like it.' I hope that this film can have a life in the U.S. - it's the grand country of cinema. I grew up with Hollywood movies, so for a French director to have a film distributed in the U.S. is a real opportunity.

Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

It's the interaction between those characters that really makes that movie as special as it is, and I'm proud to say, as you probably know, it was the highest grossing film of 2012, it's the highest grossing film that Walt Disney has ever put out, and it's the third highest grossing film ever, in the world.

Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project.

My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Chandigarh has tremendous untapped potential as a Film City to cater to the Punjabi and Bollywood film industry.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film... if you like my writing, you'll like this film. If you don't, you won't like the film. It's pretty faithful to - it's a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose.

I love being on film sets even if I'm not acting in the film, and I'm fascinated by the work of the director of photography.

When Shah Rukh's film can make it to the theatres for Diwali, why can't my film release on the same day?

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

'Sholay' can be given so many interpretations. I have seen this film so many times since the time I was a kid that I think that there could be 50 lovely interpretations to this film. Different filmmakers can give it so many interpretations, as it's a lovely film.

My diploma was in film and videography and I then went to a film academy in New York, where I trained in acting as well.

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn't.

Anytime you actually finish a film, I think it's a success. And to have that film seen and liked by audiences is the ultimate.

I was extremely nervous during my first film, even my second film.