Top 1200 Photography And Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.

You don't set out making a film that will rake in 100 crores; you just want to make a good film.

The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then my job as a storyteller is done.

I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

I'm not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I'm lucky enough to do the film.

Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I’m grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

I really discovered [Dr.Strange] through hearing about this film and first meeting Scott [Derrickson] and getting into it and just opening up and saying, "Okay, this is, like all comics, very much of its era," and my first question was, 'How do you make this film? Why do you make this film now?' and the answers were so enticing that I was like, "I'm in."

I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

I try to make each film a different film.

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.

With the birth of social media, a film gets left behind if the actors don't go and present their film and energy to the public.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers' films, it's my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

When I did my first film, I didn't have formal training; I didn't work under any director. I really didn't know how to make a film.

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

To be honest, I hadn't realised the greatness of film music till I was exposed to film songs after I started living in Mumbai.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

Success of a film is not only based on the film being good or bad. A lot of other factors are involved as well.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.

'Newton' is a very Indian film but resonates with people all across. And that's the reason it got great response at the film festivals.

Post 'Pink,' I don't have any film which I can pick out from my filmography and say 'It would have been better if I hadn't done this film.'

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.

At the end of the day, regardless of whether you're doing a huge budget film or a small budget film, you still want the film to do well, and have people see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message into your films, and you want people to see it.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.

For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

Now I realize that I have to let everyone take what they have to take from the film. No matter what I think about the film, it becomes a little irrelevant. I think I would say that the film is trying to show us that - and I spoke about that earlier - we have to let the teachers invest in their own classroom. There's no use in trying to control everything. Education is fundamental.

I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped.

I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I'm disappointed that indie film is as hard as it is to work in now. It's hard to get things done, but that sort of work is being done on TV. That's what I do; that's what I write. It's what I love, and hopefully, that's what my future's going to be.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

I'm a film maker, not a crusader. I know a film will not change the world. If it can make a difference to a few that's good enough.

I was never serious about Bollywood films, but when I was offered a film like 'Shanghai,' I took it because it is a good film.

I would love to make Madhuri Dixit dance. If I do a film with her, it definitely has to be a 'Madhuri Dixit film'. I don't want to cast her in a small role. I will do a full- fledged dance film with her.

Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so that there is something fresh about it.

'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction.

I'm very lucky to say that I worked with a lot of directors who cannot make a bad film. Like when Wim Wenders, they cannot make a bad film. They can make a film people don't like, or it's the wrong moment.

After finishing my study in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), I was mentally prepared for the struggle in the film industry.

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.