“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsSometimesFilmStuffWaterChurchCompanyComedyDirectorsMarkFloodInsurance CompaniesPomposity Author:Billy Connolly
“If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.” IfsGivingFilmFunResultsHaving Fun Author:Woody Allen
“I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.” IfsThinkingFilmPlansDangerousAssumingCommitObjectivesPrimariesSequels Author:Hutch Parker
“One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.” IfsWayWantFilmMovingYoungUnderstandingActingCareersStageSkillsEssentialsTrainingBasesTechniquePursueAcquireLongevityYoung Women Author:Kathleen Turner
“We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out of school or people come from other studios, they're gonna have different points of view and we want to make sure we're vetting all the ideas to get the best ones. A lot of people are shy about speaking up if this is their first time at Pixar or if they don't have a lot of experience, so we try to encourage that.” PeopleIfsWantTryingFirstsIdeasDifferentSchoolFilmRoomsViewsFirst TimeStudiosPoint Of ViewDiscussionShyAnimatorSpeaking UpDifferent Points Of ViewPixarSupervisors Author:Victor Navone
“I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.” IfsKnowsWantWritingFeelingsFilmLevelsCompanyOne ThingTvsInternetWorkersCaliforniaSouthernOperaSoapAntsSoap OperasSouthern California Author:Larry Gelbart
“The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayTryingCharacterJobsFilmActorsAbilityFitTheaterMusicalDefinitionsAccomplishedFrameworkMusical Theater Author:Anton Yelchin
“Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.” IfsWantFilm Author:William Monahan
“I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantDoeRealCareFilmGuyJusticeAmountTrackReal LifeI CarePortrayingRight Track Author:Joe Manganiello
“I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot.” IfsFilmBreakImpossibleDrinkSceneLetting GoDrankDissatisfactionTerminalMake Or Break Author:Jared Leto
“A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.” IfsDoeFilmStrongChanceGoneGreaterDirectorsSecureDevicesFilm Directors Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.” IfsWantLongFilmOpportunityGreenSoupMurdererExplosionsTomatoesPeasFried Green Tomatoes Author:Jack Nicholson
“If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.” IfsWantNeedsKindFilmUniqueSkinsStupidityThickStaminaMulesThick Skin Author:Terry Gilliam
“If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.” IfsWould BeFilmBrotherTownsCriticsStudiosAdamStarbucksFilm Critics Author:Alonso Duralde
“I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.” IfsImportantFilmChoicesClothesDaily LifeCrucialCostumes Author:Clemence Poesy
“I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsFilmFacesWishStarsSuccessfulManageBeing SuccessfulAppreciatedFilm Stars Author:Deepika Padukone
“I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.” IfsJobsFilmHalfCasesIndustryFocusedProfessionLuxuryHarshFilm IndustryLimelight Author:Deepika Padukone
“If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.” PeopleIfsFeelsMomentsHelpingFilmRoomsCuttingSceneShotsWideDisturbingDistressing Author:Alex Karpovsky
“Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing cause anything can change in a script.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsFilmCausesPagesScripts Author:Liana Liberato
“I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.” IfsFilmFairsMy FavoriteTalesNot SureFairyDragonsFairy TaleMurphyDisney Film Author:Lily Cole
“I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.” IfsThinkingWritingPainFilmCertainViolenceTelevisionDramaIntelligentSakeHolesInstanceAgentsOffensiveTelevision Drama Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.” PeopleIfsWantBigsJobsFilmWorstTruth IsMachinesPaidIncrediblesCraftsDisrespectfulCogs Author:Paddy Considine
“When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.” IfsWantNeedsAbleFilmActorsRealizingHappenedConversationCasts Author:Paddy Considine
“Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar” IfsFilmActorsPhenomenonAwardsOscarsDrsJurySelectedBaba Author:Ram Gopal Varma
“If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.” IfsMenFirstsEndsHumorFunnyFilmDoorsWeekHusbandCamerasVideoMy HusbandScreamLocksBathroomYour HusbandVideo Cameras Author:Rita Rudner
“Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.” IfsKnowsGivingFeelsShouldHeartStoriesBeautifulFilmTheaterDepthHallsHallmarkResonanceUnforgettablePower Of Stories Author:Luanne Rice
“I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.” IfsMatterFilmRoomsSubjectsBusyEditingDocumentariesFundingSubject MatterEditsTediousDocumentary Films Author:Haile Gerima
“If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.” PeopleIfsEnoughFilmCertainLevelsIncomeMaking Money Author:Morgan Freeman
“In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a house that you've built rather than a rental.” IfsFilmHouseTermWrittenBuiltExcited Author:Frank Whaley
“When you're acting you always want to come across as if you're not acting. For me, my take is always to have it feel like you're watching someone on film and that comes with a lot of preparation time.” IfsWantFeelsFilmActingLike YouPreparation Author:Vince Vaughn
“What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingKindFilmActorsDirectorsProtectPagesFlawsGood PeopleProtect Yourself Author:George Clooney
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.” IfsThinkingTryingMayFilmEasyDifficultPoetCriticsPainter Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?” PeopleIfsWantBelieveUseHandsSeemsFilmTalkingAudienceViolenceGoes OnBalanceDirectorsPressesDon't BelieveDenyAssumptionMovieCensorshipOffendedImplicationsBrillianceBrutalityThugFreedom Of The PressDazzling Author:Pauline Kael
“I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.” IfsI CanMomentsCharacterFilmSongQualityMagicIntentionMystical Author:Jean-Marc Vallee
“Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.” PeopleIfsWayArtMadeFeelingsFilmPhotographyCaptureArt Films Author:John Cassavetes
“I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. It has to move all the time... It's not the stage. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled. The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.” IfsNeedsI CanImportantEyeCareFilmMovingAudienceStageLessonsElementsPagesPicksDon't CareScreensI Don't CareFlipScreenplaysLearning Lessons Author:Robert Evans
“I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.” IfsLooksSelfCharacterFilmWorryConsciousPerformancesWho I AmOddSelf Conscious Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWantKindStillsDifferentWarFilmFallSexIndustryPercentOkayGenderBotherFilmmakerCracksNinetySex And Gender Author:Signe Baumane
“I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.” IfsFeelsWritingTwoBookDifferentFilmNovelOkayDifferent ThingsTwo Different Things Author:Augusten Burroughs
“If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting.” IfsLittlesCharacterHelpingFilmActorsInterestingSpecialPaidSomething SpecialNashville Author:Dito Montiel
“On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.” IfsProblemFilmDirectorsAriseFilm Set Author:Christine Swanson
“Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.” IfsMadeSaidStillsCharacterFilmFacesActorsStarsTheaterMade ItOne TimeCharacter ActorsFilm Stars Author:Denis Leary
“Making a film, you do need stamina, whether you're doing fight scenes or not. It's important to keep fit. I'm not talking about having perfect abs and stuff, but you've got to be on top of your game, especially if you're playing the lead. You have to look after yourself.” IfsNeedsLooksImportantFilmFightingGamesStuffPerfectTalkingFitSceneNot TalkingStaminaLook After Yourself Author:Liam Neeson
“I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.” IfsNeedsMadeSometimesMatterAbleFilmNextLosesAudienceToo MuchImagineSubjectsTypeMembersDirectGenreSensitiveImagine ThatSubject Matter Author:Steven Spielberg
“If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.” IfsWritingSchoolFilmFormCapacityLondonTradersFilm SchoolNyu Author:Jeff Cooper
“Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.” IfsKnowsWantWritingBookFilmStuffNovelCraftsIndie FilmsWriting For Yourself Author:Thomas Lennon
“I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.” IfsArtFilmGoalSuccessfulRiskStandardsAreasTraditionParadoxFormulasAmbitiousAssociatesDocumentariesCinematicNarrationDidactic Author:Damian Pettigrew
“I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.” IfsThinkingWantHas BeensArtDoneFilmTakenPiecesIncrediblesBrilliantCraftsSuperheroCaptivatedEscapists Author:Ryan Reynolds
“If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.” IfsYearsFilmChoicesNaturalPerfectCareersCoupleNatural History Author:Dominic Monaghan