Top 1200 Film Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

A simple love story can be made into an interesting film if the film-maker can think differently.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

It's much easier to make a Superman or Batman film than a Green Lantern film.

There are some actors that I know I won't do a film with no matter how good the film is.

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.

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.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

A lot of times when a film is a success, the fans of that film take ownership of it - it becomes their property.

I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.

The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced, and then, three years later, you look at each other on set while you're making a film about lesbian cheerleaders. You're like, 'How did that happen?!'

The Rotterdam Film Festival really makes you feel like part of a film family.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.

Even my first film Poda Podi' was supposed to be remade in Telugu. That was an experimental film.

'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.

There is no film on the face of this earth that is as blatant a girl's film as '27 Dresses.'

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

In an alternative life, I would have loved to work in film - I love film.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.

For me, a film is a film, and I just want to be part of good stories to grow as an actor.

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.

My first film was 'Thiranottam.' I cannot discount that film because I got initiated into films with it.

I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I have many stories to tell.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

Karunakaran didn't direct my first film, but I'm glad to be working with him in my 21st film nevertheless.

It is a lot more difficult to make a typical Bollywood film than a realistic film.

For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.

Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they only end up looking like some crappy, pretentious film-school thing. So I think the interest in film is really about the fashion world finding another form of expression.

When you do a film, you always hope that the film will do well but you don't think beyond that.

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

In 'Chattam,' the climax was good and that was enough for the film. But the film was not promoted well.

'Majaz' is going to be an important film in my career and I will be seen in a different role in this film.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

Um, 'Soul Food'... Another wonderful little movie that could. Here's a film that, I think our budget was maybe $6 million. We shot it in Chicago in six weeks. I was so proud of the film, because it showed America that an African-American film about family could sell, could do well, could cross over and have true meaning.

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.

I think 'Chhichhore' is the film that's closest to my heart - it's a very entertaining film with a lot of soul in it.

My position was that the film begins with the first frame and that the film should be doing a job at that point.

When we make a comedy film, its important to have a light atmosphere on the sets so that the mood reflects in the film.

Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there is an eagerness to put in any film, in anybody's work, to give it a genre title and I think as a consequence of that, the film starts to obey the rules of the genre.

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

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

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

'Housefull' is just a 40-45 crores film. It was never an expensive film to begin with.

At times, it is hard to say no to a film, but that happens, because you can't do a film due to date issues.