Top 1200 Film Students Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that are invoked to solve it will be helpful in later situations. It has little to do with how useful the answer to the problem may be. On the other hand, a good problem must also motivate the students; they should be interested in seeing the answer. Since students differ so greatly, I cannot expect everyone to like the problems that please me.

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.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

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

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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

I try to make each film a different 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.

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'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.

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

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!

The crime film is the most honest American film.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.