Best 3577 quotes in «film quotes» category

Yeah, you’re right about having entire rooms full of film and photos… in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage… I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides… I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that’s happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs,” Alecto responded. “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines… The steel mill, the coal mines, the train tracks, the smog in the sky, I’ve been able to rescue it on super-8 and Kodachrome, and no one can remediate those photographs, I can keep them as long as I want to.

Yes, I did promise you a role but your options are quickly narrowing. You’ve got a nice set of natural tits and a cute little tush; it's time to reevaluate your attributes and consider your options.

You can revise a story, you can edit a film, but you can only alter an event by lying about it.

You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.

You can't tell what's in a person's heart until you truly Know them.

You have to feel. Otherwise you end up like the piano teacher.

You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.

You should find something better to do with your time,” Mandy told him. “I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up.” “…Come again?” Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. “I take photographs and develop them myself, I’ve got my own darkroom… it was a joke,” Mandy laughed. “I love photography and I’m gonna be a photojournalist someday.” “Really?” Alecto asked. For the first time since she’d met him, he sounded slightly enthusiastic. “…I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well… but I can’t be a photojournalist like you… I can’t be anything… still, at least I can take photographs, it’s fun.

You want to kill me?? - So I guess that truth hurts, but why it hurts? Lie doesn't but truth does?? How does it happen?? So you go... you say "Well, well pretty nice made knife..." and you are looking it by moving it like rotate and such type of stuff and one moment you want to kill me. But why?? Is it because I just "I lived" or it was because of "Listen" or it was because of "The Walk"?? or what's the answer?

Your audience is your adversary. If you don't have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can't tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is in conflict with everything that is false in what you have written. If it is an audience worthy of your talent and potential, it won't let you slide by the lies, the laziness, the shortcuts. If you don't take audience seriously, you can be sure it will return the favor.

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.

A day on a film set is maddening.

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

After reaching season two on TV series, having done a film, and receiving acknowledgment in America, I feel like now whatever I do will be on me. My choices will be mine; my disappointments will be mine.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.