Top 1200 Great Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

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 wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

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

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.

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

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.

'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

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.

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

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.

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

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

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

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

Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar

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

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

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.

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

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

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

If offered a good role, I would like to work in a good Punjabi film. This land has produced great writers, poets and actors.

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

I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.

In college, I was a theater and film major at Kansas University. I always had an affinity for comedy. I could probably quote everything from 'Caddyshack,' 'Stripes,' and all those great comedies from the '80s.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film... if you like my writing, you'll like this film. If you don't, you won't like the film. It's pretty faithful to - it's a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose.

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

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

I can't point my finger on a 'dream role,' but the days that I'm able to fulfill the stories of the 'hood/barrio on film, those will be great days.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

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

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

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.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

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

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

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

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

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

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

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

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.

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