Best 3577 quotes in «film quotes» category

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

Morocco: Looks better in films.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Most Chinese filmmakers grew up watching television; they watched films on television, not in cinemas. The scope of their vision is not big enough, they're not yet detail-oriented enough. You have to watch films in cinemas for years to understand the depth and scope of vision needed in filmmaking. Directors in China usually come from an academic background; they graduate as film directors. Whereas the directors from Hong Kong learn their trade on sets, beginning at the lowest rung.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

Music is half the film.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

My contribution to film has always been negligible.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.