“You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.” IfsThinkingFilmParentWalksEffectsWindHugeAdultsEightDinnerBrilliantKurosawa Author:Ann Patchett
“With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.” KnowsWayFeelsKindLittlesDonePlayFilmWalksTvs Author:Lee Pace
“Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.” HumansFilmActorsWalksTeachStreetsHuman NatureFilm SetBest Education Author:Rosamund Pike
“You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.” KnowsFeelsSometimesFilmWalksTarget Author:Alan Rudolph
“I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.” WellsFilmWalksShotsPlanesTested Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.” TwoFilmStarsWalksTeacherTreeMy FavoriteActressesCinemaPianoFavouriteTree Of LifeLove FilmsPiano Teachers Author:Alicia Vikander
“Every Harry Potter film features Lord Voldemort, who stereotypes evil. And movies that discriminate against evil have no place on campus, because evil has feelings, too. Terrorists cry during commercials and mad bombers enjoy long walks and campfires, too.” LongFeelingsFilmEvilEnjoyWalksLordCryMadTerroristFeaturesHarry PotterStereotypePottersCampusBombersCampfireLong WalksLord VoldemortHarry Potter Film Author:Jedediah Bila
“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.” InspirationalDifferentSoulPlayFilmLife IsWalksRolesStageBuddhismBirthPleaseTheatrePopcorn Author:Frederick Lenz
“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksMadeTwoWholeFilmCertainWalksMinutesHavensPaintingConsumedGalleryDown Time Author:Julie Mehretu
“I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.” ThinkingHas BeensFilmFormMy OwnWalksMaterialsCamerasScriptsCinemaMy Own Life Author:Jonas Mekas
“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.” HardWantedFilmYoungPurposeWalksClearWalkingDirectorsSkillsTheaterVictimSticksTortureHard TimesKillersBrutalYoung WomenSpineCreeksCredentialsTrackingMutilation Author:Roger Ebert
“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.” MayHas BeensTwoStoriesFilmThreeHoursLinesWalksVisionGraceMinutesSpecialEffectsSurpriseLove StoryAdmireOriginalityPearlsHarborsDecemberStunningSpecial EffectsTrianglesBanalityLove TriangleQuotingRedundantCenterpiecesSurprise AttacksDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:Roger Ebert
“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
“Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.” ThinkingFactsMightFilmUsedFightingFeltChallengesWalksMoralJourneyEmotionalWalkingUsed To BeCinemaRobotsEvaluateWalking Out Author:Simon Pegg
“I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.” PeopleWantHardFilmWalksLaughingTomorrowNot AfraidMaking People Laugh Author:Rob Schneider
“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.” ThinkingHumansWantedSchoolFilmActorsWalksTeachStreetsHuman NatureDramaSpeechFantasticOxfordFilm SetBest EducationFantastic Life Author:Rosamund Pike
“If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.” IfsFilmFormFightingActorsWalksModernBowsCopExpress YourselfSpineStraight Up Author:Donnie Yen
“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.” WayWellsHas BeensFilmFeltWalksSituationFiveMinutesI RealizedFive MinutesBiggest FearOverreaching Author:Anne Hathaway
“My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.” KnowsStoriesFilmWalksSawsMy Favorite Author:Shane Carruth
“Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.” BookWantedFilmRomanceMovingLinesWalksOne DayEdgesKnivesCynicismManipulative Author:David Nicholls
“I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.” ThinkingFeelsKindFilmLinesWalksYouthProud Author:J. C. Chandor
“There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindFeelingsFilmFunProcessWalksAudienceFeel GoodRevelationsTranslateGood Feeling Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it then I can see that there was some more stuff going on in there that I didn't realize.” IfsKnowsLooksI CanStoriesFilmStuffRealizingWalksSawsMy FavoriteCorePlot Author:Shane Carruth
“It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.” PlayHumorFunnyFilmGuyWalksRolesWifeCastsRuinsThat GuyRevolver Author:Tina Fey
“If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.” IfsFilmWalksPiecesFailingBored Author:Mike Leigh
“Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.” WorldFilmImaginationWalksComfortableFilm SetCool Places Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.” FeelingsFilmFeltWalksSawsPrintExposedDarkroom Author:John Sexton
“One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.” YearsFilmWalksHalfSixComfortableCamerasGratefulBest ThingsHalf A YearCreeksFilm Set Author:Michelle Williams
“In the first Chucky film, there's a scene in the elevator where a woman is just bringing food to a friend's home and they're in that cage elevator. She says, 'What an ugly doll,' and walks away. As the elevator begins to descend, Brad just decides he's going to drop this in and it was so simple but he just goes 'F*&k you,' and the audience went crazy. It was really a marker for us, and an evolution to understand what the potential of not just this killer, but this guy that obviously has some opinions as well.” FirstsWellsHomeFilmGuySimpleWalksOpinionAudienceCrazyEvolutionSceneUglyKillersCagesThis GuyDollsElevatorsBradMarkers Author:David Kirschner
“Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.” PeopleThinkingBelieveChildrenImportantFilmI BelieveBornLosesMy OwnWalksTakenSeeingMessagesAdultsEmbraceIndividualityIdiosyncrasies Author:Brittany Murphy
“Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.” IfsThinkingFeelsFirstsWellsLongMatterFilmCertainWalksRoomsSubjectsChangedDirectorsSkillsScriptsGenreSubject MatterGenre IsFinanciers Author:Gurinder Chadha
“We don't believe in splitting the experience. We don't believe in taking a row out and putting in motion seats [that shake and move in response to cues from a film]. If you walk into that auditorium you're going to have a communal experience.” IfsBelieveFilmMovingWalksResponseDon't BelieveSeatsShakesSplittingAuditoriums Author:Gerry Lopez
“I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.” KnowsWantLongMomentsWould BeFilmWinningLanguageLinesWalksKnow HowSpeechRedIndiaAweOscarsCeremonyCarpetGod KnowsTrophiesRed CarpetHindiMagical Moments Author:Karan Johar
“Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.” LongFilmEasyWalksRacismPrejudiceBoardsLong WalksRacism And Prejudice Author:Alanis Obomsawin
“That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.” IfsWayFilmActorsWalksKnowingBaseballComicBest ThingsSci FiComic ConSci Fi Film Author:Topher Grace
“When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!” MenWorldWantSaidActionFilmWalksEmotionPiecesTaughtLessonsProfitTeethDumbExecutivesPercentagesPublicityMgm Author:Jeanine Basinger
“I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.” PeopleIfsWantLongCareFilmStrongWalksAudienceResponseDon't CareStuckI Don't Care Author:Terry Gilliam