Top 1200 Horror Films Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.

I would love to do more Hindi films, but I am very laid-back that way and wouldn't go looking for more films.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

I would love to work with Salman. I watch all his films. I loved his performance in many films.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

Ghost Team approached me. They said, "Hey, it's mid-October, do you want to go shoot a movie on Long Island for three weeks about stupid people chasing ghosts?" I had never done anything like that before. It's kind of a mock-horror movie. What I didn't realize was the whole thing takes place at night, as a horror movie should, and so I didn't realize that we'd be working until 6 in the morning every night, or morning.

I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.

I like films that are about people and real, and honest films that are authentic depictions of real-world problems.

I would say that all my films have more content than a 'content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.

Seeing the actual 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history.

Although I've watched most of Spielberg's films, I haven't watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation.

I love 'Lawrence of Arabia,' big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas.

Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

Some of the corporate houses are using films as a means to market their brands. They are not concerned with the storyline. When it comes to big-budget films, simple storylines told with conviction are still the safest best.

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It's hard in the sense that it's very uncertain.

I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.

My detractors are only accusing me of blowing up cars. What they have not realised is that my films have the potential to cross language barriers. New avenues have opened for Hindi films, and I'm proud and happy about it.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

I've done so many genres of films in my career; I've done 91 films so far. But never a thriller. That's how 'Oppam' happened.

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

I don't know anything about the film industry. I thought I knew films, but apparently, I don't know films or people!

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings on circuit and films that are not commercial.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go in the order you want to do. So I haven't got a huge list of undone films or stuff that's just been abandoned forever.

Big films help your reach a wider audience, and doing independent films keeps your artistic side happy.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

I have grown up watching Bollywood films, watching Shah Rukh Khan's films. I am happy that I worked with him.

I like films that sort of play out in one confined area. Films that have a feeling that you're watching a play, a contained environment and a creeping tension.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.

In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

I think a lot of action films, and I'm just saying this as a moviegoer, the default setting on action films seems to be how could it be cooler?