“From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.” ThinkingIdeasHelpingLastsFilmChallengesDifferencesCreativeHugeCoupleElementsVisualsStandpointChallenging Myself Author:Sasha Grey
“For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.” WantHumansI CanWould BeFilmHuman BeingsLevelsDangerousHugeStudios Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh
“American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.” WorldMeanFilmResponsibilityRightsTelevisionProductsHugeEqualCreatingMessagesResponsibleBurdenAround The WorldEqual RightsBeing ResponsibleRamificationsAmerican TelevisionEqual Respect Author:Liz W. Garcia
“I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.” WantFirstsShowsFilmForeverFansTvsHugeFirst LoveTv ShowsGreat Film Author:Aml Ameen
“Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.” TryingBigsFilmOpportunityDealsHugeIndependentStudiosBudgetsGreat OpportunityIndependent FilmIndie Films Author:Aml Ameen
“Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.” PeopleThinkingArtBookFilmBlackFeetHugeShotsIntuitionInvisibleSensibilityCastingBlack Art Author:David Cronenberg
“Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.” Has BeensMadeI CanWarPlayFilmStarsRolesImagineHuge Author:Joshua Bell
“For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.” MadeFilmValuesEasyHugeEnglandImpactDollarsPoundsRelativeRelative Value Author:Eric Fellner
“As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so you have to really get out of that space because for actors it's a micro-focus and then you figure out your arc through what the writers have given you to say. But that arc is just one little piece of the huge arc of the whole film. It took a while to get out of that.” KnowsLittlesWholeFilmPurposeActorsGivenSpaceFocusPiecesFiguresHugeSceneJust OneArcs Author:Grant Heslov
“I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.” KindReasonBigsFilmCoursesAudienceTelevisionAdventureTvsHugeBelieverAppetiteSuperheroZeitgeist Author:Marc Guggenheim
“I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.” UseAbleFilmRecordsGroupsHugeIntimateLayersOrchestraTexture Author:Steven Price
“No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the way to be a filmmaker. And yes, I'm leading the music department kind of thing and that responsibility with the music is with me, but really that job is one of many.” WayWantKindJobsFilmResponsibilityHugeLessonsMusic IsFilmmakerDepartment Author:Steven Price
“I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!” DoneKidsFilmFunHugeLowsExcitingBudgetsMore TimePlaygroundsIndie Films Author:Felicity Jones
“If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.” PeopleIfsKindI CanHomeEyeRememberFilmFoundSawsFansHonestTelevisionHugeScaryTeenagerStaringScareHalloweenBlurLogosBeing A Teenager Author:Imogen Poots
“The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.” ThinkingFilmOpportunityDealsHugeDepthDigital Author:Brad Furman
“When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.” TryingFilmSimpleHugeDisasterNarrativeDramatic Author:Jeremy Bolt
“I'm a huge film star... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f--ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f--ing Muppet movie.” KnowsFirstsFilmGuyDiesStarsMinutesHugeDiedFilm StarsMuppet Author:Billy Connolly
“When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.” LittlesFilmNamesMiddleNew YorkMinesHugeSceneLettersBottomTinyFountainSkyscraperBillboardsDistributors Author:Anita Ekberg
“When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.” MadeImportantBookRememberFilmEffortHuge Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.” WantFilmUsedMiddleHugeAreasUsed To BeMiddle Ground Author:Eric Fellner
“Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.” IfsReasonBigsFilmFallLosesHugeAmountBudgetsRelyDecentExceptionRevenuePropsFall BackDvds Author:Eric Fellner
“I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.” FilmHugeBabyHorrorHorror Film Author:Alexandra Daddario
“There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.” IfsFilmFansHugePeriodsSevenErasCinemaHeatTarantino Author:Rockne S. O'Bannon
“The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.” WantWritingKindI CanPlayStoriesFilmSeeingFansTelevisionHugeContinuingStoryline Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version of Apocalypse Now, and then I preferred the original film. Kingdom of Heaven as a director's cut is the real picture, but in fact someone recently told me that there was another cut, the original first cut, which he said was just extraordinary. I've never seen it - and of course now I want to, if it exists, and so would everybody else.” IfsWantFirstsSaidRealFactsRememberFilmCoursesHeavenCuttingFansHugeDirectorsOriginalsExtraordinaryExcitedKingdomsVersionsBeing RealNow And ThenApocalypseKingdom Of Heaven Author:William Monahan
“Being the executive producer of a film is not that difficult. It just means that you have some power. There's not a huge amount of skill involved, I don't know how much I'm giving away here. I feel like that guy on Fox, giving away the magicians' tricks. It's not rocket science, being an executive producer of a film.” KnowsGivingFeelsMeanFilmGuyDifficultKnow HowHugeAmountInvolvedSkillsTricksProducersExecutivesFoxesMagicianRocketsThat GuyRocket Science Author:Craig Ferguson
“I think these are such different films that it's hard to compare, because with Quentin we were all just like, it was like a party every day, you know, it was like that film was just like silly, it was just really for fun, it was really, it wasn't, you know, to make a huge impact. I t was just we wanted to have fun and go to work every day and do a fun movie. And this is like huge, I mean, this is like huge studio film, there's a ton of action, it's like really hard work.” ThinkingKnowsMeanDifferentHardActionWantedFilmFunPartyHard WorkHugeImpactStudiosSillyCompareHaving FunQuentinFun Movie Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it's not like I'm having to change a huge amount of the way I shoot to work in 3-D. I think you could probably dimensionalize some of my movies and they would make very good 3-D films.” ThinkingWayWellsFilmStyleHugeAmountVery GoodFilmmakerFilmmaking Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main reason he got into it is to do what he is doing now: film and television work.” ReasonFilmGuyComedyExampleTelevisionHugeStonesCooksComedianStepping StonesFilm And Television Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.” FilmGrowing UpComedyGrowingHugeComedian80sMurphyDelirious Author:Arj Barker
“It started so early, it all runs together. But what made a huge impact on me was when I went to Europe at 15 or 16 years old. All I knew before that was music on the radio and TV. When I went over there I realized there are all different levels of music. There are people who do blues, jazz, classical, working in film, TV and all kinds of places. You might not see them on MTV but there are lots of needs and uses and opportunities for all kinds of music.” PeopleNeedsYearsKindMadeDifferentUseMightRunningTogetherFilmOpportunityLevelsTvsHugeEuropeImpactJazzRadioI RealizedAll KindsMtvDifferent Levels Author:Chris Thomas King
“The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.” ProblemFilmCompanyHugeHollywoodIndependentAdvertisingShootingBudgetsFilmmakerPromotionHollywood Films Author:Robert Kane Pappas
“The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.” ThinkingFeelsKindImportantFilmHugeComfortableProjectsIndependentIndependent FilmBlockbuster Author:Mia Wasikowska
“Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.” BelieveDoeCountryEnoughHandsSchoolFilmCitiesQualitySuccessfulNew YorkStudentsCollegeHugeCostLuckyHigh SchoolActressesAccessRemarkableNew York CityFilmmakingEquipmentPublic SchoolGhettoThirteenFilm SchoolQuality Education Author:Julia Stiles
“I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.” FilmGrowing UpGrowingFansLandHugeFavouriteAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.” LittlesI CanShowsWantedFilmGoalBloodWeekFansHugeHorrorFollowingScaryHandleGenreMeant To BeGoreKevinWere Meant To BeBlood And Gore Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.” FilmTeamTelevisionHugeBiggerFilm And Television Author:Kyle Cassie
“I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.” WantedFilmStarsFeltRolesHugeClassicMovie StarClassic Films Author:Mary Steenburgen
“The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking responsibilities from the regular army, which hides the war. You have these private armies of mercenaries acting with immunity for their actions, the worst of which was the Blackwater case where they killed 17 Iraqi civilians and the guys who did it just went home. We [screenwriter Paul Laverty and Loach] felt this deserved a story.” Has BeensWarStoriesHomeActionFilmGuyFeltActingResponsibilityCasesWorstSubjectsHugeArmyIraqTaking ResponsibilityCiviliansIraq WarScreenwritersImmunityContractor Author:Ken Loach