Film Quotes - page 10

The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts. (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule. View quote
Satyajit Ray
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I bring excitement on the sets. I'm an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I'm not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
Indian film awards lack credibility. View quote
Aamir Khan
I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon. View quote
Bruce Bennett
We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant. View quote
Amitabh Bachchan
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written. View quote
Marc Guggenheim
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good. View quote
Martin McDonagh
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. (Andrzej Wajda)
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces. View quote
Norman Wisdom
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. View quote
Olivia Wilde
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. View quote
Priyanka Chopra
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. View quote
Renee Zellweger
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film. View quote
Annette Funicello
It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. (Richard Donner)
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman. View quote
Richard Donner
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing? View quote
Richard Donner
Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film. View quote
Richard Donner
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. View quote
Robert Bresson