“I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.” IfsCharacterStoriesSeemsMightFilmNightHorrorScarySettingWeatherSettingsHorror Film Author:David Naughton
“Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.” DoneSeemsFilmPlanetsInfiniteFinite Author:Diane Lane
“There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.” SeemsFilmAustralianOffbeat Author:Nick Park
“It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.” LittlesBigsSeemsFilmCuttingPassionateEdgesCommerceCutting Edge Author:Robert Patrick
“The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.” PeopleHeartKindMeanHas BeensMadeSeemsFilmFunPrideResponseLovelyOverwhelmingRespondingMean PeopleFun Times Author:Rosamund Pike
“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.” WritingHomeSeemsWantedFilmBoysTakenNeededHeyVisualsScreenplaysMississippiHometownJust Saying Author:Tate Taylor
“Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.” PeopleWorldTryingSeemsFilmFitBewildered Author:Roger Michell
“Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.” IfsSeemsFilmUniqueSuicideCinemaGamblingGamble Author:Thomas Langmann
“My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.” FirstsSeemsFilmTelevisionUnderstoodReactionsPublication Author:Alain Resnais
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn
“The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.” IfsSelfSeemsRunningFilmRiskExcitingOriginalsInsightRemarkableRecallsRevealingAppearingLameParody Author:Vincent Canby
“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.” GivingWellsFactsStoriesSeemsActionFilmStuffForgetViolenceCarCoupleSceneEssentialsHollywoodGive MeStructureShootingBroadsFadsAction Films Author:Clint Eastwood
“We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.” ArtSeemsFilmUsedEmotionSilenceAdvantageForgottenBrilliant Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.” SeemsFilmEmotionAudiencePositionEmpathyCinemaManipulationDominantSubjective Author:Peter Greenaway
“You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account.” Has BeensSeemsFilmInterestingEmotionSeriousElementsAccountsReactionsNervousScoreFlawsAffectedReviewsEffectivenessReviewers Author:Jerry Goldsmith
“There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.” PeopleSeemsTodayFilmActorsPoorScriptsActressesRamaActors And Actresses Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.” PeopleMeanArtSeemsLastsFilmHeroMirrorsVampireDon't TrustSuper HeroPopular Film Author:William Monahan
“The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.” MeanEnoughSeemsFilmCrazyIndustryWestDareScaryMusic IndustryFilm IndustryWild WestWild Wild West Author:Anna Kendrick
“We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.” FirstsSometimesHomeSeemsGovernmentWould BeFilmNiceViolenceWorstTelevisionHeavyRapAdvertisingProgrammingSwimmingMetalsAmendmentsPornographyFirst AmendmentDaydreamingOutlawHeavy MetalNannies Author:Molly Ivins
“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
“Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.” GivingSeemsFilmRomanceLyingCertainInterestHavensAmountSceneTheaterSexyMovieNecksDaringOffenseMechanicConvincingSexuallyMovie LoveSadism Author:Renata Adler
“As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.” NeedsMaySeemsFilmNextActorsRolesMediaRelationTheaterPhotographCampaignsAngleExposurePromotingFlatteringPublic RelationsFilm Set Author:Carson Grant
“In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.” LittlesTwoSeemsMightFilmChallengesWeekTelevisionLike YouMonthsScriptsTheatreTwo WeeksGood FilmsAhead Of Time Author:Wesley Snipes
“The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.” SeemsFilmFailingTheaterGreat ThingsWirePresenting Author:Chris Pine
“They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.” SeemsFilmImaginationDirectorsIndependentCinemaAuteurs Author:Toby Jones
“Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.” PeopleWantSeemsFilmJerry Author:Bill Nighy
“The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.” WayMayMadeFactsSeemsMightEarthFilmTurnsCasesGreaterCreaturesEmptyIntelligentVictimThreatMonstersWanderVampireGenreAttractiveDreadRuinedDesirableZombiePlagueWerewolfInfectionMindlessGhoulsRevulsion Author:Kim Paffenroth
“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.” IfsThinkingKindSeemsFilmWaitingPrinciplesAchievementDeserveBlessClayMoldGod Bless Author:Shirley MacLaine
“In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.” StatesSeemsFilmSupportWeaponsPrejudiceEnglandRoseAverageBritishNuclearNuclear WeaponsViewersPercentagesPitsEnglishmenMindlessKansasBarbecueOverused Author:Emmett Tyrrell