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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up at 3 in the morning and go "Wait, I have an idea!" You have to continually be drawn over and over again to deepening inside that story, and ruminating over questions: "Why would he say this to her? Why if he was standing there, would she go?" Every one of those answers has to come from some personal place, and in order to do that, you can't sit on the surface. It's such a big change that you can't really explain it to anyone else.

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

Everyone is always trying to figure out the future of film distribution. I try and not spend too much time worrying about things like this and just try to focus on making the best work I can to entertain me and my friends.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

Everyone wants to know what you want to work on and everyone wants to pitch you what they're working on. And that's just part of the process. And hopefully, at some point you find someone of like minds and you make a film.

Every phase of a film has to go against what was done in the previous one.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

[ Felicia Day] is really figured it all out, and it was impressive. It was nothing like our set, because her set was like working on a real film.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a long time without changing an angle, and allow you to do that along with them.

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself