Three Lions Film Quotes

Many years ago there were no lions in Northwood. There were no black lions, nor golden-brown ones (which is the more usual color). There were no pink lions, green lions, or purple polka-dotted lions.
No lions at all.
But now there are lions. Nobody knows how many, but they are there, all right. ~ Brian Falkner

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not for me to judge whether it's a good film or a bad film, but what I could say is that nobody had a cultural or linguistic issue with what was produced. ~ Abbas Kiarostami

Lions eat giraffes so they can survive even though the giraffes didn't do anything to the lions, and nobody thinks that the lions are wrong. ~ Matthew Dicks

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult. ~ Steven Shainberg

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV. ~ Jenna-Louise Coleman

In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in. ~ Kevin Spacey

I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies. ~ Brian Geraghty

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life. ~ Bill Vaughan

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously. ~ Lloyd Kaufman

And I'm wondering where the lions are. ~ Bruce Cockburn

It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died. ~ Abbas Kiarostami

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues. ~ Aesop

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work. ~ Hollis Frampton

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule. ~ Satyajit Ray

When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic. ~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor. ~ Felix Dennis

I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit? ~ Steve Martin

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. ~ Keanu Reeves

Though I am born into a film family, I hardly had much exposure to shooting during my growing
years. My first film actually taught me about the breakdown of shots in a film. My aim is to do three
memorable roles in the next five years; films I can be really proud of. And I want to work with the best. ~ Alia Bhatt

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.' ~ Asif Kapadia

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. ~ Frank Capra

The images are designed, so that after you see the picture two or three times, its no longer my film, it starts to be your film, You recognize the people, you know them, and you don't even know who directed the picture. PlayTime is nobody. ~ Jacques Tati

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight. ~ Elizabeth Kostova

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film. ~ Jaco Van Dormael

One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed. ~ Peter Berg

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself. ~ Bobby Darin

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film. ~ Marshall Curry

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them. ~ John Selden

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press. ~ Joely Richardson

I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn't an actor who can just do one thing. I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly. ~ Adam Pally

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones ~ Susan Cain

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. ~ Diane Lane

Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves. Xenophanes ~ Christopher Hitchens

Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time. ~ Dov Davidoff

Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours. ~ Woody Allen

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
[Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
Non sunt papilionibus molesti.] ~ Martial

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years. ~ Roland Joffe

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys. ~ Erich Ludendorff

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions! ~ Charlie Flynn

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such. ~ James Spader

To film in water is three times harder than just on land. ~ Sam Worthington

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography. ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance ~ Thom Yorke

I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids. ~ Cody Lundin

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse ~ Dean Koontz

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne ~ Robert Jordan

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it. ~ Tim DeKay

Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions. ~ Carlson Gracie

What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir? ~ Terry Pratchett

With Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child ~ Jimi Hendrix

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star. ~ Fred Melamed

I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!" ~ Michelle Rodriguez

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films! ~ Rohit Shetty

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. ~ Sid Waddell

By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie. ~ Mickey Rourke

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes. ~ Dean Koontz

Where did he go, your father?'

'Africa.'

'What for?'

'To shoot lions, of course.'

'What on Earth for?' said Mrs. Willow blankly.

'Some people shoot lions,' the girl said pleasantly, 'and some people do not shoot lions. My father is one of the people who do. ~ Shirley Jackson

Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions. ~ Hal Sparks

I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different versions of my death. And they settled on the third. ~ Sean Bean

The personal power of being confident and clear about our actions and saying what we know without holding back is described in the texts as 'the lions roar. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Lions make leopards tame. ~ William Shakespeare

Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything. ~ Jerry Lewis

Men are like lions. We hunt. ~ Kevin Hart

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions. ~ Tertullian

Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions. ~ Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. ~ Henry Rollins

Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it... ~ Hub Mcann, "Second Hand Lions"

The entire Blue Pride, nine in all, surrounded us, nearly all of them asleep. We were quite literally in bed with a pride of wild Kalahari lions. ~ Mark Owens

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions. ~ Kendall Jenner

Dictatorial government is more dangerous than lions! ~ Enock Maregesi

What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet. ~ Grant Heslov

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. ~ Robert Bloch

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with. ~ Dan Phillips

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times. ~ Eric Idle

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,
are they not monsters? ~ William Shakespeare

Film theory has nothing to do with film. ~ Roger Ebert

I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable. ~ Jean Dujardin

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. ~ Francois Truffaut

Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days. ~ Manny Farber

I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me. ~ Brendan Fraser

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions. ~ Yann Martel

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years. ~ Eli Wallach

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors. ~ Kirby Wright

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. ~ Seth Shostak

Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring. ~ Jamie Hector

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault. ~ Thomas Lennon

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ~ Dan Simmons

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. ~ Francois Truffaut

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

It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules. ~ Alex Agase

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel. ~ Ed Markey

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong. ~ Marlon Wayans

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. ~ Georgette Heyer

[Footnote:] Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject. ~ Will Cuppy

Ned: I figured it was time for a picnic by the menagerie.
Jenny: And you brought me? Why not take the woman you're marrying?
Ned: She's grown up with the Duke of Ware. Lions seem less ferocious. ~ Courtney Milan