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“I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.”

Ifs Thinking Film Effects Emotional Messages Visceral

Author:Aunjanue Ellis

“The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.”

Ifs Character Film Process Scripts Utility Good Movie Blueprints

Author:Topher Grace

“If a film is good, it will work no matter what.”

Ifs Matter Film No Matter What

Author:Hrithik Roshan

“If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Feels Years Looks Made Age Film Guy Becoming Giving Up Percent Graves Coming Of Age Admitting Becoming A Man

Author:Kevin Bacon

“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Ends Would Be Film Turns Actors Knowing Wonderful Particular Skills Projects Scripts Luxury Toms Cruise Great Film

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.”

Ifs Thinking World Film Sick

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.”

Ifs School Film Law Brother Anxiety My Brother Serving Vietnam Graduates Execution Marine Attending Law School Graduate School

Author:Peter Guber

“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”

Ifs Ends Eye Truth Film Understanding Darkness Objects Ignorance Fit Truth Is Essence Visible Over It Brightness Gazing Plainness

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Use Bigs Able Film Space Audience Cutting Fans Shots These Days Bored Long Shots

Author:Alice Englert

“It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.”

People Ifs Long School Film Long Time Finished Like Me Atmosphere Odd Film Set Finished School

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.”

Ifs Film Form Fighting Actors Walks Modern Bows Cop Express Yourself Spine Straight Up

Author:Donnie Yen

“I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.”

People Ifs Knows Persons Stills Sometimes Film Acting Plans Offers Appreciate Pursue Respect Me Film Acting

Author:Mara Wilson

“I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.”

People Ifs Thinking Film Wish My Own Meetings Focused If I Could My Own Life

Author:Mara Wilson

“I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Might Film Streets Grew Grew Up East My Way Los Angeles Indie Films

Author:Michael Trevino

“A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.”

Ifs Way Mean Body Film Artist Shadow Paint Makeup Get Real Faux Makeup Artist

Author:Jennifer Tilly

“I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.”

Ifs Trying Lasts Film Projects Treats Pressure Raises Bars Raising The Bar

Author:Scott Adkins

“Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.”

Ifs Has Beens Film Choices Pieces Theatre

Author:Darren Boyd

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.”

Ifs Want Ideas Film Simple Taught Scene Cards Features Frank Simple Things

Author:David Lynch

“I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.”

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Author:Ashley Greene

“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”

People Ifs Two Character Film Pleasure Talking Situation Knowing Seeing Shots Tables Irony Classic Bombs Hitchcock People Talking Knowing More

Author:Richard Ayoade

“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.”

People Ifs Film Emotional Perfection Miracle Technique Awe Again And Again Great Film Emotional Life

Author:Ali MacGraw

“It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.”

Ifs Film Lines Comedy Lists Just One Buckets One Line Bucket List

Author:Miranda Hart

“I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.”

Ifs Way Hard Film Next Party Hard Work Sorrow Stuck Release My Way The Next One Warp Wallowing

Author:Rani Mukerji

“A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.”

Ifs Mind Mean Film Interest Audience Changed Industry Constant Casts Actresses Filmmaker Agendas

Author:Rani Mukerji

“If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.”

Ifs Film Dies Film Set

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.”

People Ifs Thinking Film Growth Media Mass Awakening Journalist Awake Collectives Makers Consumption Catastrophe Mass Media

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.”

Ifs Kind Persons Film Games Football Structure Workout

Author:Robert Griffin III

“If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.”

Ifs Thinking Lasts Film Political Shooting Paris Ideological Tango

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.”

Ifs Thinking Way Might Wanted Film Phases Editing Edits Frivolous

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Film Water Saws Shots Cameras Yeah Boat Knives Masts

Author:Phillip Noyce

“You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.”

Ifs Art Film Names Violence Effects Honest Crime Television Art Is Series Being Honest

Author:Michael Haneke

“Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Ends Film Simple Answers Rooms Entertainment Deny Cynical Viewers

Author:Michael Haneke

“Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Film Waiting Principles Achievement Deserve Bless Clay Mold God Bless

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all.”

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Author:Vince Vaughn

“With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.”

Ifs Happens Together Film Can Do Lines Independent Schedules Independent Film

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.”

Ifs Trying Different Enough Lasts Film Moving Challenges Attention Too Much Focus One Thing Last Time Criteria Always Trying

Author:Queen Latifah

“I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.”

Ifs Kind Film Materials Essentials Scripts All Kinds Genre Fixed Filmmaker

Author:Jason Statham

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