Best 3577 quotes in «film quotes» category

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

All films are born free and equal.

[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of filmmaking style.

All my films are all my children.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

All my films are love stories.

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

A lot of my best friends are the best person for the job in a film, but sometimes being a filmmaker I'll give a buddy a chance to prove himself. Other times I want to go with a tried-and-true person. It can absolutely cause problems.

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.

A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it.

Although I feel directing is a lot more challenging, fulfilling and satisfying, it is also far more stressful & consuming. This is why I don't see myself directing one film after another in quick succession.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.