“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.” WayWantedFilmOpportunityMastersEngineers Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.” WellsImportantWantedFilmThreeOpportunityMissing Author:Michael J. Fox
“I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.” MenWorldI CanFilmYoungOpportunityAppreciateYoung Women Author:Olivia Thirlby
“It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.” WayFilmOpportunityEasyAnimalNovelElegant Author:Chris Weitz
“The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.” WayDoneJobsFilmArtistActorsOpportunityBecomingHollywoodMediumsAffectedGood JobCablesRecessionsRobustPlumsFilm Actors Author:Omari Hardwick
“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.” KindImportantSchoolFilmOpportunityTelevisionMajorsGraduatesGreat OpportunityFilm SchoolNorthwestern Author:Richard Donner
“I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.” LooksFilmOpportunityChallengesAudienceMinutesMaterialsEnthusiasticPottersNew Challenges Author:David Heyman
“I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.” ThinkingWorldHappensFilmOpportunityStuffCrazyDrivingFilmmakerMake It HappenDrive Me Crazy Author:Lucy Walker
“You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.” IfsGivingMadeRememberFilmOpportunityGrowing UpGrowingFansTelevisionGiving Back Author:Jon Huertas
“We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.” BigsFilmTurnsOpportunityWaitingTwilight Author:Adam Rayner
“I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.” LongStoriesAbleFilmOpportunityCareersWonderfulVery HappySelective Author:Angelina Jolie
“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.” PeopleLittlesMatterPlayFilmFormArtistActorsOpportunityIndividualTermInterestViewsAttitudeResponsibilityStageImportanceFolksScreensTraditionalPerformersScenariosPrevailingPortrayal Author:Paul Robeson
“If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.” IfsFirstsFilmOpportunityAudienceHopefullySequels Author:David Heyman
“There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.” ThinkingMindActionWantedFilmOpportunityIndustryDramaDirectorsStudiosLockedExistentialSurreal Author:Christopher Nolan
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“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
“I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.” MadeEnoughBigsFilmOpportunityFeltWonderfulTalentDirectorsScreensBig ScreenShowcase Author:Arin Paul
“Saw has been a unique experience in that Ive had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.” WayHas BeensDifferentFilmArtistOpportunitySawsUniqueDifferent WaysDepartmentCrewReally GreatGreat ArtGreat ArtistUnique ExperiencesFilm Crew Author:Tobin Bell