Film Quotes
- Page 48There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
Ben Kingsley
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.
Mark Ruffalo
We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!
Mary-Kate Olsen
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
Claire Danes
The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.
Eric Bana
I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.
Danny Boyle
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
Richard Attenborough
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
Alan Rickman
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
Wim Wenders
I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
Julie Taymor
Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.
Douglas Wood
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney
When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.
Jay Roach
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
Laura Hillenbrand
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
Richard Linklater
I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.
Guy Pearce
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
Alex Borstein
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
Ryan Murphy
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
Marie Windsor
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
Kim Cattrall
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Carter Burwell