Films Quotes

Films Quote of the day

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Western films don't do very well in India.

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

I used to spend $25,000 of my own money on my short films, and I wouldn't make that back, not even close. So I think the Vimeo thing, because it's pay to download, that helps

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I've always liked sci-fi/fantasy films. I've never really followed any sci-fi television shows though. I wouldn't consider myself a fan. When asked, I think I say the Matrix is my favorite movie.

Short films don't go too far.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

I love films-they are like paintings.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.