Njuta Film Quotes

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought. ~ Chris Albrecht

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.' ~ Kate Mara

It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and time. But they don't really change. You're ultimately trying to get the most creativity and time with the money that you have. ~ Darren Aronofsky

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong. ~ Ralph Fiennes

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not. ~ Steven Spielberg

The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did. ~ Ron Moody

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor. ~ Steve Buscemi

No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies. ~ Douglas Coupland

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'. ~ Jenny Agutter

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television ~ Amy Poehler

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

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

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on. ~ Omar Dorsey

As he sat on the side of the bed, he felt the room, the house and the night as empty. In the next room Nicole muttered something in her sleep. For him time stood still and then every few years accelerated in a rush, like the quick re-wind of a film, but for Nicole the years slipped away by clock and calendar and birthday, with the added poignance of her perishable beauty. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom ... so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that. ~ Helen Slater

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. ~ Jim Morrison

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely. ~ Jonathan Lethem

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important. ~ Charles Roven

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively. ~ Kristen Hager

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book. ~ Les Miles

I think they're having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans. ~ Garth Kravits

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film. ~ Peter Greenaway

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film. ~ Patrice Leconte

In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes ... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society. ~ Kangana Ranaut

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it. ~ Peter Berg

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is. ~ Alexis Bledel

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations. ~ Matthew Goode

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show. ~ Eugene Jarecki

Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever. ~ Charles Xavier (X-Men)

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big. ~ Jack Black

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs. ~ Billy Crudup

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget. ~ Lou Diamond Phillips

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films. ~ Dan Scanlon

Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film. ~ Nate Parker

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying. ~ Amber Tamblyn

I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff. ~ Meghan Markle

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing. ~ Yash Chopra

I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television. ~ Abhishek Bachchan