Film Quotes - Page 35

• I'll be in #‎ Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that.

  Pooja Bhatt

  Photography, Vacation, Hunting

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• My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Goal, Different, Aspect

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• Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

  Stacy Peralta

  Realizing, Made, Young

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• The Democrats continue to snipe at Bush. They'll never give it up to him. You know Teddy Kennedy and Tom Daschle pick more nits than a father and son spider monkey team who know they're being followed by a National Geographic film crew.

  Dennis Miller

  Father, Team, Son

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• The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Eye, Politics, Messages

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• Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Beach, Attitude, Gun

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.178, Crown Forum

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• I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

  Andrew Dominik

  Crime, Feels, Capitalism

  "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.

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• When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a great extent, the film is a mythological look on human life. This is probably what I would like the audience to keep in mind before they enter the screening room.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Everyday, Mind, Looks

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• When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

  Mike Figgis

  Musician, Singers, Way

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• The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

  Francois Truffaut

  Beautiful, Light, Theatre

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• You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

  Josephine Decker

  Nice, Thinking, Want

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• They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Book, People, Action

  "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 09, 2013.

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• I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Adventure, Journey, Stories

  "Highway Diaries: Songs of the Kashmir valley echo in ‘Highway’" by Stacey Yount, bollyspice.com. December 9, 2013.

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• What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

  John Huston

  Magic, Trying, Working It

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• We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

  Woody Allen

  Censorship, Lit, Pornography

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

  Russell Baker

  Father, Writing, Exercise

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• It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

  Glenn Close

  Names, Worry, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Real, Mean

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• My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

  Frank Capra

  Children, Reality, Men

  Frank Capra (1971). “The name above the title: an autobiography”

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• I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

  Marisa Tomei

  Night, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  Kajol

  Writing, Self, People

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• I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

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• Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

  John Malkovich

  Matter, Ifs

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• The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.

  Richard E. Grant

  Fashion, Moving, Pace

  "My Perfect Weekend: Richard E Grant". Interview with Anna Tyzack, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 16, 2010.

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• In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

  Channing Tatum

  Matter, Action, Ifs

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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