Hackford Film Quotes

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.' ~ Spencer Boldman

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming. ~ Bahman Ghobadi

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it. ~ Michael Pitt

Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special. ~ Terry Teachout

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people. ~ Robin Williams

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world. ~ Mira Nair

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity. ~ Christine Baranski

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy. ~ Guillermo Del Toro

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click. ~ Ajay Devgan

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in. ~ E.L. Doctorow

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts. ~ Stan Brakhage

The film I like the best is always the one I'm working on now or next. ~ Ewan McGregor

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do. ~ Sydney Pollack

She was saying she was sorry that she couldn't always hang out when I wanted to, but that "when you get a boyfriend," he becomes the only person you want to spend all your time with. He becomes your best friend, and (this part was not said, but was definitively implied) the only friend that really matters. "You'll know what I mean, when you get one," she said. So that's when I gripped my upper jaw and pulled back the skin and muscle of my face to reveal an alien, like the one in the film Alien, and I jumped through the glass in Leigh's window and ate every boyfriend in the city, and the country, and the world. I swallowed them whole, and many of them cried, and those were the ones I liked best. ~ Katie Heaney

We're creating a different universe with different rules and a different tone and different villains. We were very careful to honor the iconography of Spider-Man, but we wanted to tell it in a new and different way [in the film]. ~ Marc Webb

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds. ~ Will Self

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day. ~ Julia Leigh

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends. ~ Lawrence Lessig

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors. ~ John Turturro

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination ~ Nicholas Ray

Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn't matter. Sugar's fine. And when it's full, you pull the plug out ... are you listening?" "I'm listening." "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. "Clever." "That's not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector ... backwards!" "Backwards?" "Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?" "And that's how the Universe began is it?" said Arthur. "No," said Ford, "but it's a marvelous way to relax. ~ Douglas Adams

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film. ~ Steven Spielberg

I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment. ~ Michael Pitt

I wonder what it's like out there? ~ Van Johnson

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina. ~ Parminder Nagra

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film. ~ Lisa Nicole Carson

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to. ~ David Gilmour

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story. ~ Lenny Abrahamson

Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime. ~ Galen Rowell

What I like about film is it explores imperfections. ~ Mia Wasikowska

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images. ~ John Updike

I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change. It has the ability to put big, complex, and controversial subjects across in an easy-to-understand and digestible form. It has the power to change someone's perspective on the world in a very short space of time - film has the power to change the world itself. ~ Sam Branson

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress. ~ Sarah Polley

Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance Institute for my first film. I'm eternally grateful for their support. I think you need to be surrounded artistically and follow your intuition - always follow your intuition. ~ Sophie Barthes

The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film. ~ Pola Negri

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that. ~ Chris Terrio

I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation. ~ Jehane Noujaim

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. ~ Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection. ~ Cate Blanchett

You don't think of the tape as boring or interesting. It is crude, it is blunt, it is relentless. It is the jostled part of your mind, the film that runs through your hotel brain under all the thoughts you know you're thinking. ~ Don DeLillo

The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero. ~ Michelle Yeoh

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me. ~ Elisha Cuthbert

I still ask myself why did you watched the film Paranormal Activity the all parts or the film "The VIsit" 2015. Both were home made and not big deal even stupid, you even watch football + you play one game over and over and over, you play stupid games + you watch stupid stuff and after all you still ask yourself why you are stupid. The answer is somewhere here, search it! ~ Deyth Banger

I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama ... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world. ~ Eleanor Catton

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf. ~ Julie Walters

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film. ~ Doug Peacock

Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration. ~ Joe Nichols

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't. ~ Alexander Payne