Film Industry Quotes

• The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

  James Cameron

  People, Answers, Saying No

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Film Directing, People, Directors

  "One! the Book about Everything and Nothing!: Stories from One Male to All of You". Book by Chimie (p. 85), November 23, 2011.

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• I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Film History, Important, Proud

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

  Danny Boyle

  Fall, World, Film

  "Danny Boyle’s Portrait of a Man". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2015.

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• It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with
  a smile.

  Katrina Kaif

  Film, Easier, Controversy

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• It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

  Charlie Cox

  People, Trying, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

  Mike Leigh

  Integrity, Real, Principles

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• I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment

  Dorothy Arzner

  People, Doubt, Environment

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• I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

  Samantha Bee

  Television, Canada, Film

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• Once in a while a good opportunity would come along, like the first 'Playhouse 90 ever to air - working in television afforded me my best opportunities. The (film) industry was going through such turmoil at the time - studios didn't know where to go anymore, they were falling apart, television was there. They didn't know what kind of films people wanted. The European films were making a huge impact because those films wanted real people in real situations.

  Tab Hunter

  Real, Fall, Opportunity

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• When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.

  Andrea Arnold

  New York, Independent, Home

  "Director Andrea Arnold On Her Next Film: 'It’s Going to Involve Lots of Wild Kids, Rihanna and a Bear'". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

  Chuck Connors

  Baseball, Games, Debt

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

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• It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

  Peter Capaldi

  Storm, Film, British

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

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• National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

  Peter Weir

  Moving, Australia, Feelings

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• I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.

  Nico Tortorella

  Writing, People, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

  Mike Leigh

  Insecurity, Problem, Film

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

  Eric Stoltz

  Home, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  David Wenham

  People, Film, Peter

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• I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.

  Zoe Saldana

  Kids, Watches, Able

  Source: www.filmindustrynetwork.biz

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• I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Fans, Festivals, Film

  "Sundance 2012: Melanie Lynskey on the Rise of Female Protagonists and Which Screenings She Hopes to Catch (Q&A)". Interview with Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

  Catherine McCormack

  America, World, Film

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

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• If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Passion, Next Day, Energy

  "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2004.

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• The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

  Stephen Daldry

  Successful, Class, People

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Class, Everyday, India

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• Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Issues, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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