Top 1200 Great Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

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

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.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think the tools were always available, for decades and decades, to make your own film and be creative. I don't think people had to wait for YouTube to do this type of small project. YouTube, I think it's great. I have this idiotic satisfaction. And I think there's a bit of that in YouTube. You share, true, but it's centralized, and it's already sort of controlled. I'm more for something that's not a centralized medium. Like doing your own film and screening it yourself. You cannot control people doing that.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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