Film Quotes - Page 20

• When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

  Dabney Coleman

  Taken, May, Succeed

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• Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

  Danny Elfman

  Drawing, Special, Mars

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• I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Ghouls, Keys, Two

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• We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Ghouls, Two, Worry

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• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  Manuel Puig

  Ghouls, Exploration, Audience

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• Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

  Ron Moody

  Ghouls, Differences, Theatre

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• But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

  Shane West

  Fun, Believe, Ghouls

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• I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Ghouls, Organization

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

  Adam Arkin

  Ghouls, People, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

  Trevor Nunn

  Ghouls, Decision, Directors

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• I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Glowing, Generations

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• In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.

  David Walker

  Home, Grieving, Usa

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• Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

  Mel Torme

  Theatre, Chicago, Hollywood

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• Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

  Judith Crist

  Real, Mean, Criticism

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

  Milos Forman

  Media, Thank God, Switzerland

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• Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

  Leonard Maltin

  Technology, Polar Express, Animation

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• One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Crazy, Design, Stories

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• Short films don't go too far.

  Matthew McGrory

  Hair, Short Films

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• And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

  Rick Moranis

  Thinking, Hair, Worry

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• That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

  Kelly Lynch

  Cowboy, Hair, Numbers

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• Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

  Shane West

  Beauty, Opportunity, Guarantees

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• In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

  Mia Kirshner

  Drama, Used, Heavy

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• I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

  Brendan Fraser

  Saws, Opinion, Lord

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Thinking, Years, People

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• We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

  John Thaw

  Hands, Cameras, Three

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