Film Quotes - page 3

Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film. (Mark Haddon)
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work. View quote
Richard Donner
The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that. View quote
Simon Pegg
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. View quote
Sebastian Barry
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph. View quote
William Boyd
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society. View quote
Bong Joon-ho
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. View quote
Ed Harris
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art. (Carlo Ponti)
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. View quote
Carlo Ponti
Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. View quote
Lawrence Wright
I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was. View quote
Rod Steiger
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. View quote
Atom Egoyan
I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like. View quote
Neil Jordan
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. View quote
Aaron Siskind
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. View quote
Ann Macbeth
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. View quote
Ann Macbeth
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. View quote
Armistead Maupin
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film. (Ashley Scott)
I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership. View quote
Blair Underwood
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. View quote
Bruce Beresford
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. View quote
Conrad Hall
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting. View quote
David Ginola