“I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.” WantTodayFilmMorningTasteDirectorsWake UpCatholicContemporaryPerceiveFilm Directors Author:Stephen Daldry
“Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.” PeopleWantGivingFilmPurposeCoursesLanguageTeachTeachingStudentsTheoryTasteRewardsDefinitionsAcademicIncapableLiteracyOccultArcaneFilm Students Author:Roger Ebert
“Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.” PeopleWorldWayAbleFilmYoungSongPoorCrazyHugeTasteSickMajorityActivePartnersLuxuryMinoritiesIntrospectionPowerlessRecognizingSexuallySystematicWhimAdvertisementsHomely Author:Edmund White
“The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.” ProblemFilmMy OwnTasteGenre Author:Ben Wheatley
“A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.” WritingLooksFilmYoungFictionCrimePersonalityHeroTasteMediumsSupposed To BeLazyGrantsCrime FictionFiction WritingProtagonistsTaste In Music Author:Peter Temple
“It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.” Would BeFilmIssuesSeeingTasteQuestionableHypocriticalBad Taste Author:Mel Brooks
“I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.” FilmWatchesTasteEclecticHeist Author:Isla Fisher
“You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.” IfsWantLittlesActionFilmForceComedyTasteAction Films Author:Ashley Greene
“In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.” ThinkingFilmLanguageSexViolenceTelevisionTasteAbusePressesToleranceMainstreamGraphic Author:Charlton Heston
“I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.” PeopleIfsWayI CanBigsFilmOrderMy OwnDecisionPayTasteStandardsCourt Author:Sydney Pollack
“I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene.” WorldFilmTasteSceneBandJazzBritainEclecticOasisWorld MusicTaste In Music Author:Isla Fisher
“As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.” FeelsShouldAbleActionFilmComedyTasteIntimateFilmmakerSpectatorsEclectic Author:Patrice Leconte
“I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.” ThinkingGivingFeelsBelieveFilmGivenI BelieveAudienceIndustryTasteEncouragementDon't BelieveFilmmakerFilmmakingFestivalsEmpoweredFilm Festivals Author:Tilda Swinton
“My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.” ActionFilmPoliticalTasteTyrannyGood TastePolitical Action Author:John Waters
“I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.” WritingFirstsKidsFilmGirlNovelSawsCrazyFansTasteHorrorSquaresSuburbsHorror FilmHitchcock Author:Karen Walton
“Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.” IdeasShowsFilmInterestMy OwnPayTasteShort Films Author:Joseph Kosinski
“If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it.” IfsFilmMorningTasteOkayEvery MorningContinuingGumChewingChewing Gum Author:Jaco Van Dormael
“I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."” KnowsKindMayHas BeensMightKidsFilmChanceTastePerformancesTeenagerBroadwayMight Have Been Author:John Lloyd Young
“I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.” WorldWellsDifferentDoneEnoughCharacterFilmTvsTasteLuckyFeaturesBroadway Author:Yvonne Strahovski
“My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.” FeelsHas BeensFilmMy OwnTasteFlyingGimmicks Author:James Mangold
“Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.” FirstsKindMatterFilmArtistNovelCrimeTasteElementsCriminalsBagsSimilarityThrillers Author:William Monahan
“For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.” TryingI CanFilmTasteAccents Author:William Moseley
“My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.” SoulFilmArtistMinesGoes OnTasteBandStandardsCatPolicePopsListsLocalsGenreRangeScore80sVocalFoldsFunkAnnieMotownBopsFilm Scores Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.” ThinkingNeedsStoriesBigsFilmTasteWeightBig QuestionsOverloaded Author:Volker Bertelmann
“My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.” FilmActorsStuffChallengesTakenWallTasteDirectorsOddOff The Wall Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.” EndsRunningFilmFictionFantasyDramaTasteLowsScience FictionBudgets Author:Michael Sheen
“The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.” BelieveTwoFilmNightRoomsHabitTasteHundredAccountsIncludingBonesSpendingAwfulMonkeysMonumentLiving RoomLeading MeDvdsCinematicImpulsiveFixation Author:Jen Lancaster
“As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.” ThinkingSaidFilmHumourTasteCarrieGood Taste Book:Mr. Maybe Source: Mr. Maybe