All Quotes

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

Film has to describe and show.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

Film, I think, is my medium.
‐‐ Pia Zadora

Film in many ways is very literal.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
‐‐ David Leitch

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.
‐‐ Shane Carruth

Film is a collective experience, as you know.
‐‐ Sydney Pollack

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
‐‐ David Lean

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
‐‐ Huey Lewis

Film is a machine: you never stop.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

Film is a strange thing.
‐‐ Steve Zahn

Film is a truly magical medium.
‐‐ Tom Savini

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
‐‐ Lawrence Bender

Film is a very intimate medium.
‐‐ David Morse

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.
‐‐ George Lucas

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
‐‐ Irvin Kershner

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
‐‐ Jacques Audiard

Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.
‐‐ Paul Haggis

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.
‐‐ Lea Michele

Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see.
‐‐ James Gray

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.
‐‐ Norman McLaren

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.
‐‐ Claire Bloom

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.
‐‐ Mike Mills

Film is forever.
‐‐ Angela Bassett

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.
‐‐ Steven Rodney McQueen

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
‐‐ Chris Pine

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.
‐‐ John Boyega

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
‐‐ Orson Welles

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.
‐‐ Roman Coppola

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.
‐‐ Christian McKay

Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
‐‐ David Lindsay-Abaire

Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.
‐‐ Kevin McCollum

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
‐‐ Beau Willimon

Film is my big problem. I am involved too much. I love too much. I've been trying to resolve it for 35 years now, but for now, I have to keep making them.
‐‐ Lina Wertmuller

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!
‐‐ Nina Arianda

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.
‐‐ Eric Fellner

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
‐‐ George Lucas

Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.
‐‐ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala