Top 1200 Film Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

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

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

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

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?

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 appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there's no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do.

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.

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

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.

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

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

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