All Quotes

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.
‐‐ Daryl Hannah

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
‐‐ Kenneth Lonergan

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.
‐‐ Romola Garai

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
‐‐ Susan Hill

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
‐‐ Martin Bormann

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.
‐‐ Paul Auster

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

Films are a very personal experience - just like a martini - so I try to think about what I like, what projects I like to be in, and make sure I feel proud about it because, at the end, I'm the only one that's going to look back and feel proud or not about what I was doing.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.
‐‐ Nimrat Kaur

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
‐‐ John Milius

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
‐‐ Paul McGann

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.
‐‐ Dario Argento

Films are fun, but life is much richer.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.
‐‐ Ken Russell

Films are just consumables.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

Films are like oxygen for me.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
‐‐ Madhur Bhandarkar

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.
‐‐ Errol Morris

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.
‐‐ Shahid Kapoor

Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
‐‐ Kajol

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
‐‐ Zachary Levi

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.
‐‐ Mike Mills

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
‐‐ Q'orianka Kilcher

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.
‐‐ Paul Dano

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
‐‐ Robert Bresson

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.
‐‐ Robert Redford

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
‐‐ Kareena Kapoor Khan

Films don't hold the answers I'm looking for... Would you not be so much more interested in finding out that Bigfoot existed than in watching a really good movie?
‐‐ Megan Fox

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
‐‐ Michael Haneke

Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
‐‐ Robin Givhan

Films have always been youth oriented.
‐‐ Dina Merrill

Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
‐‐ David Mamet

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.
‐‐ Neil Jordan