Top 1200 Film Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

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.

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

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.

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.

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

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

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

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

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

If your first film does badly, there's no guarantee of the second film.

When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.

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

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

I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I 'write' with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around.

I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

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

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.

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.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

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

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

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

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

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.

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

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

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

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.

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

I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I'm also the first one to visualize this story, I think contributing to the film industry means I'm able to take the best of a story and translate it well into a movie that can be released in theaters.

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.

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

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

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