Film Quotes - page 18

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. (Ann Macbeth)
Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world. View quote
Ann Macbeth
All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year. View quote
Ann Macbeth
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry. View quote
Ann Macbeth
The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in. View quote
Anna Friel
Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater. View quote
Anne Archer
Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously. View quote
Anne Dudley
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor. View quote
Anthony Anderson
It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff. (Anthony Michael Hall)
They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge. View quote
Anthony Minghella
I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film. View quote
Anupam Kher
Politicians need a film appreciation course. View quote
Anurag Kashyap
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change. View quote
Ari Graynor
I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s. View quote
Arnaud Desplechin
It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question. View quote
Arthur Cohn
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. View quote
Arthur Erickson
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way. (Athol Fugard)
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film. View quote
Avi Arad
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step. View quote
Adrian Lyne
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images. View quote
Agnes Varda
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. View quote
Ahmed Best