Film Quotes

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
Gus Van Sant

Try, Shot, Copy

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
Jeanne Moreau

Learn, Matter, Principle

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
Jeanne Moreau

Within, Confines, Shoot

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
Jeanne Moreau

Work, Character, Working

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.
Diablo Cody

Women, Experience, Children

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.
Diablo Cody

Laughter, Two, Why

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.
Diablo Cody

Successful, Actually, Movie

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
Spike Lee

Important, Boring, Everybody

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
Danny Boyle

Great, Ego, Problem

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Ralph Fiennes

Act, Language, Second

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Ralph Fiennes

Movies, Father, Put

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
Ralph Fiennes

School, Character, Heart

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
Ralph Fiennes

Work, Two, Away

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes

Between, Gun, Head

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
John Malkovich

Work, Done, Proud

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
John Malkovich

Hate, Fail, Involved

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Done, Here, Point

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.
Shahrukh Khan

Stress, Short, Shot

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
Francis Ford Coppola

Days, Ten, Cinema

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
Francis Ford Coppola

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
Francis Ford Coppola

Found, Schedule, Flew

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
Francis Ford Coppola

Through, Another, Creative

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.
Francis Ford Coppola

Work, Movies, Hate

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.
Kristen Stewart

Time, Character, End

You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.
Kristen Stewart

Work, Strong, Emotional

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Orlando Bloom

Same, Keep, Unless

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
David Attenborough

Able, Less, Three

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
David Ogden Stiers

Done, Away, English

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
David Ogden Stiers

Change, Time, Off

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