Film Quotes - page 2

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. (Vivien Leigh)
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I didnt go to film school, i went to films. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. View quote
Keanu Reeves
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. View quote
Keanu Reeves
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. View quote
Werner Herzog
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. (Luc Besson)
I never made a film which fully satisfied me. View quote
Roman Polański
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. View quote
Wim Wenders
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting. View quote
David Cronenberg
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. View quote
Elia Kazan
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Language is much closer to film than painting is. View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. (Harrison Ford)
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. View quote
Steven Spielberg
I don't care if I get $50m to do a film. View quote
Abel Ferrara
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. View quote
Manuel Puig
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. View quote
Manuel Puig