Film Quotes - Page 3

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Film is not a form, it has forms

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Western films don't do very well in India.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.