Best Film Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”

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“I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.”

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Author:Diego Luna

“I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I'm really drawn to European films.”

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Author:Isabel Lucas

“I don't think good films have messages.”

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Author:Julia Leigh

“I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.”

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Author:Julia Leigh

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

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Author:Julia Leigh

“It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.”

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Author:Julia Leigh

“I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.”

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Author:Julia Leigh

“The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.”

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Author:Julia Leigh

“I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“It's always been my dream to be in a war film.”

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Author:Matthew Lewis

“The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.”

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Author:Matthew Lewis

“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.”

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Author:Melanie Laurent

“I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.”

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Author:William Lucking

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.”

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Author:Adrian Lyne

“I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.”

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Author:Leonard Maltin

“There are no great scripts - just great films.”

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Author:Malcolm McDowell

“My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.”

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Author:Matthew Modine

“If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.”

“From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.”

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Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.”

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Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.”

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Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.”

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Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Macnee

“Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.”

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Author:Radha Mitchell

“So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.”

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Author:Radha Mitchell

“Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.”

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Author:Rami Malek

“It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.”

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Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.”

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Author:Roddy McDowall

“I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.”

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Author:Romany Malco

“Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.”

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Author:Ron Moody

“Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.”

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Author:Rose McGowan

“Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

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