“I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.” FeelsYearsSaidCareKidsWantedFilmAttentionTvsCinema Author:Samantha Morton
“They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'” MeanSaidAmericaFilmCuttingFinalsMakersHarveyArkansas Author:Mira Nair
“If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterFilmValuesPlansYeahFactorsRecognitionOrganizedThey SaidYogiGreat FilmScooby DooFlintstones Author:Fred Seibert
“Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMadeSaidRememberFilmSongCoursesLanguagePeriodsUniversalMake You ThinkUniversal Language Author:Scott Weiland
“I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.” WaySaidWantedFilmFourTelevisionNeededFinanceReleaseFeaturesTheatricalJerusalem Author:Bille August
“In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.” PeopleSaidHardFactsFilmTurnsMillionsTvsTomorrowOffersProgramAccountsDollarsSeriesLots Of MoneyPackagesMillion DollarsHard ThingsBank Accounts Author:Roone Arledge
“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.” PeopleWantMeanSaidStoriesFilmLinesShareConceptsSorryDearLove StoryFeaturesPhrasesCompanionshipLove Means Author:Marge M. Kennedy
“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsSaidDoneFactsInspirationFilmWonderfulMetsPaidComplimentAdaptationNever QuitJulietOh WellRomeo Juliet Author:Ian Mckellen
“He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.” TryingSaidBookHappensWould BeFilmImpossible Author:Giovanna Cau
“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
“To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.” SaidAbleLastsFilmLoversBedBritishClimbsOne LinerMae Author:Mae West
“The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.” NeedsFeelsSaidBookFeelingsJobsFilmCertainUnderstandingWalksBrotherTheaterGood MovieCoen Brothers Author:Angelina Jolie
“People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.” PeopleIfsMenWellsLongSaidMightFilmPurposeCuttingLong TimeBe GoodTerritoryImprovisingBeing FunnyNew Territory Author:Denzel Washington
“One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.” Has BeensSaidFeelingsFilmArtistResultsAudienceHeroAgreeForgivingPainterArtisticBowie Author:Maynard James Keenan
“You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.” IfsKnowsSaidWholeFilmStupidGood ThingsNervousRuined Author:Pia Zadora
“Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.” ThinkingSaidShowsBigsFilmThings To DoInterviewsDisappointedEmailNorth KoreaWrong ThingsKoreanKimSonyHackedNorth Korean Author:Conan O'Brien
“This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.” MenWorldHumansSaidFilmHuman NatureDirectorsFilm DirectorsBergman Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.” ThinkingYearsWellsSaidWarMatterTodayFilmFunNovelSubjectsShotsConcernedYears AgoCastsVietnamVietnam WarSubject MatterShort TimeEclecticBarbaraHad FunOmarHershey Author:Bruce Willis
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I think all of our guys work hard and want to improve. They want answers, and the film will be the answer. The coaches will collect it and get better. I do not think anybody wants a rebuilding year. That's not something that I have ever said.” ThinkingWantYearsSaidHardFilmGuyAnswersHard WorkCoachesGet BetterTigersRebuildingLsu Author:Les Miles
“There's so much more freedom in film as far as subject matter and what can be said. And then, also, the process is different because there's more time. On movies there's just so much freedom and space to explore in front of the camera.” SaidDifferentMatterFilmProcessSpaceSubjectsFrontsCamerasMore TimeSubject Matter Author:Dave Franco
“I was 13 when I first saw my mum's films. There were these boys who said to me, 'Your mum makes sexy films,' and I said, 'She doesn't.' Then I watched them and my mum makes sexy films! I'm a huge fan of my mum.” FirstsSaidFilmBoysSawsFansHugeSexyMumYour Mum Author:Alice Englert