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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. Stanley Kubrick
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. Ridley Scott
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Ingmar Bergman
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It’s because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society. Bong Joon-ho
James Caan told me at the end of filming ‘Elf’ that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny – and I never was. Will Ferrell
It’s never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don’t actually mind working out, but it’s the diet: I’m half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal. Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing. The place that we were was stunning, and it really was quite an amazing experience to film out there. Tom Holland
In film, it’s very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. Ridley Scott
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. Francis Ford Coppola
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I’m definitely willing to film it for sure. I feel like I’ve taken people on this incredible journey on ‘Total Divas’ and ‘Total Bellas.’ They have seen me cry, get angry, and be so many different ways about marriage. I feel like for my fan base, my Bella Army, I should let them tune in to my wedding. Nikki Bella
Pain is temporary, film is forever. Michael J. Fox
A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation. Hirokazu Kore-eda
As a director you have to be careful you don’t over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over. Stanley Tucci
I was sent off to study in Georgia to keep me from movies. When I outgrow this film career, I will become a practicing doctor. I want to specialize in cardiology. Sai Pallavi
Youth theatre isn’t just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It’s for everyone; it’s about a community, it’s about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills – not just acting but all the other sides – working in the TV, film, and theatre industry. Sam Heughan
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn’t matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers – I want them to be as imaginative as they like. A. R. Rahman
‘Best Man Holiday’ was a very successful film. Kevin Hart
I believe in the theory that one cannot make a good film; it just happens. Mammootty
Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there’s always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is. Russell Wilson
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics – the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Orson Welles
No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Robert Adams
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. Kim Jong Il
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Aaron Siskind
I don’t want to be a grumpy old man or too pessimistic, because if I have a chance, I would prefer to watch a film in the cinema with an audience on a big screen instead of watching it on a cell phone. It’s a very different experience, but somehow I think this form will have its own future and life. Wong Kar-wai
But I’d be lying if I didn’t say that every time you go to make a film, you’re desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself. Paul Thomas Anderson
In a film like ‘Kannathil Muthamittal,’ I can’t have a Rajnikanth or a Kamal Haasan. If you have a star, the expectation of the film is different. So, you cast according to the subject of the film. Some films are best done with stars because it gives you a base on which if you can get the correct performance, you can reach higher. Mani Ratnam
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there’s a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second. Alan Moore
There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That’s why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more. Matt Dillon
I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’ are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also ‘Children of Men’ would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original ‘Solaris’ and the remake. And even though it wasn’t a film, the series ‘Battlestar Galactica’ was one of my favourite TV shows. Pedro Pascal
I’m a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there’s fresh air. Apart from that, I’m a film addict and a DVD freak. Murray Bartlett
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide. Keanu Reeves
I’ve got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series ‘Band Of Gold’ but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film ‘Imagine Me & You,’ with Piper Perabo. Lena Headey
When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That’s my boss. The director is interpreting the writer’s vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well. Juliette Lewis
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we’d sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling. Brad Pitt
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character’s complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism – that’s what I was saying about the difference between the character’s message and the film’s message. Christian Bale
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. Billy Wilder
Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world. Jodelle Ferland
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. Jean Cocteau
It’s so easy to manipulate an audience, but it’s nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. John Boorman
‘The Exorcist’ is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don’t know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn’t go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn’t go upstairs by myself. I couldn’t sleep. Odette Annable
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Stanley Kubrick
In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet. Bernice King
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship – ‘Ode to Friendship.’ Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script. Eugene Ionesco
In ‘Roma,’ I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world… As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream. Federico Fellini
I just have more fun when I get to try new things – and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys. Bruce Willis
You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it! Steven Spielberg
Every great film should seem new every time you see it. Roger Ebert
You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. Werner Herzog
Film is pop art. It’s not whether it’s auteur cinema or not; that’s a false distinction. Cinema is cinema. Denis Villeneuve
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. Peter Jackson
They say that theater is the actor’s medium, television is the writer’s medium and film is the director’s medium, and it’s really true. Charlie Hunnam
It’s all just one film to me. Just different chapters. Robert Altman
I don’t come from a film background. I haven’t learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. Priyanka Chopra
It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It’s not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I’m no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I’m great or good at it or anything, it’s just that I’ve done a bunch of them, so you’re not shocked. Jonah Hill
When I make a film I’m away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. Kevin Costner
I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. David Bowie
The secret to film is that it’s an illusion. George Lucas
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room. Joe Dante
Measuring success in cultural diplomacy – the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples – is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? Cynthia P. Schneider
The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn’t stand out. Roger Deakins
A film engages you emotionally and intellectually. Irrfan Khan
Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion. Aml Ameen
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is – politics, business, film – it’s, it’s a long journey. Kathryn Bigelow
The film that I go on about and drive people mad is ‘Don’t Look Now’ with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It’s the best married couple acting you have ever seen in any film, the way they are together. Brett Goldstein
Today, filmmaking isn’t just about shooting and releasing. You’ve to structure the marketing of a film. Ram Gopal Varma
Film lovers are sick people. Francois Truffaut
Film spectators are quiet vampires. Jim Morrison
Rajkumar was the winner of ‘Naalaya Iyakkunar Season 2,’ and I was impressed with his short film. He joined me as an assistant when I started the pre-production work for ‘Vada Chennai.’ Vetrimaaran
I’m an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He’s somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre. Nicolas Cage
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. Quentin Tarantino
We shot ‘Breaking Bad’ on film; we capture ‘Better Call Saul’ digitally. In the shooting of ‘Breaking Bad,’ we would have this steady, handheld, cinema verite sort of look, so we purposely went the opposite way with ‘Better Call Saul’ – locked in the cameras and made the movements smoother and more mechanical. Vince Gilligan
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does. Walter Murch
The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. Katharine Hepburn
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. Sydney Pollack
I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me. Karthik Subbaraj
So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? Christina Aguilera
Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home. Arjun Kapoor
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. Igor Stravinsky
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not. Philip Seymour Hoffman
A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page. Lawrence Wright
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed. Wim Wenders
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. Frank Capra
My straight friends accept I’m gay but they forget that some people don’t. Even now, if I go into a party, people don’t usually assume I’m gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you’ve got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people’s eyes going, ‘Oh! OK!’ Andrew Haigh
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act. Barry Jenkins
‘Saawariya’ was my debut film. It will always be the most special film. Ranbir Kapoor
I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there. Mahesh Babu
One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy. Denzel Washington
I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman’s ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor. Harry Knowles
We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren’t. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It’s sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur. Jean-Luc Godard
When I’m making a film, I’m the audience. Martin Scorsese
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’ Quentin Tarantino
In ‘Pacific Rim’ I had to have a haircut I wouldn’t usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film – that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times. Idris Elba
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light. David Fincher
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. Alan Rickman
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies. Lana Del Rey
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. Kenneth Lonergan
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture. Kenny Leon
With every film that I am doing I am learning new things either about myself, or about filmmaking. Sanya Malhotra
What I realized is that it doesn’t matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it’s still the same thing. It’s still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense. James Wan