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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• 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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• 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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• The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

  Cate Blanchett

  Issues, Diversity, Directors

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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

  Samantha Bee

  Television, Canada, Film

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• In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  People, Trying, England

  "He's not a god - he's human". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face

  Jack Dee

  Looks, Faces, Film

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• No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Artist, California

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Emotional, People

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• I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.

  Winona Ryder

  Good Friend, Feel Good, Supportive

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  If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

  George A. Romero

  Writing, Bucks, Statistics

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• When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

  Julian Fellowes

  Jobs, Cutting, Insecure

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• Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

  Tom Felton

  Writing, Acting, Want

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

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• The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Technology, People, Together

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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  Gary Numan

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

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• It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

  Helen Mirren

  Art, Philosophy, Independent

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• The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

  Edward Norton

  Needs, Way, Film

  "Edward Norton offers Earth-friendly advice" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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