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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
— Caitlyn Jenner
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
— A.R. Rahman
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
— Steven Spielberg
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
— Steven Soderbergh
I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.
— Brian Helgeland
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
— Marion Ross
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
— Gloria Swanson
If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.
— Martin Lawrence
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
— Alfred Hitchcock
My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.
— Emraan Hashmi
I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
— Josh Hartnett
When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.
— Demetri Martin
It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.
— Forest Whitaker
This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
— Wentworth Miller
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.
— David Schwimmer
There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.
— James Cameron
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.
— Keisha Castle-Hughes
I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.
— Joanna Lumley
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
— Vera Farmiga
Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.
— Deniz Gamze Erguven
I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
— Mads Mikkelsen
You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.
— Woody Allen
Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
— Kevin Smith
I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.
— Timothy Simons
I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film.
— Ben Brooks
When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.
— Julian Fellowes
It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.
— Roger Ebert
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
— Martin Scorsese
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
— Ken Burns
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
— Felicity Jones
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.
— Francis Ford Coppola
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
— Michelle Trachtenberg
I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.
— John Lasseter
My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.
— Neil Marshall
With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.
— Michael Eklund
Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.
— Amy Heckerling
When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
— Mario Van Peebles
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
— Michael Haneke
Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
— Terence Stamp
I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.
— Naomie Harris
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
— Joseph Kosinski
My idea of romance is a guy who will take me to see an Avengers film and doesn't mind dressing up like Loki afterwards.
— Karina Halle
To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
— Andre Ovredal
I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.
— David Gordon Green
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
— Manny Farber
I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.
— John Orloff
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
— Kevin Wilson
I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.
— Jason Woliner
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
— Sydney Pollack
TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
— Elia Kazan
I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
— Peter Jackson
I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
— Marco Pirroni
I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.
— Kevin Pollak
History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
— Steven Spielberg
I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
— Beyonce Knowles
Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
— Lee Daniels
As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
— Harvey Weinstein
When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you.
— Patrick Fabian
Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.
— Serina Hartwell
I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.
— Sonakshi Sinha
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
— Dirk Benedict
The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen.
— A.D. Posey
An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
— Debra Winger
Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
— David Hewson
I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
— Skitch Henderson
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
— Rafe Spall
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
— Rebecca De Mornay
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
— Ira Sachs
No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!
— George Foreman
I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and say, 'Oh, you scared me!' I was the good guy in that film!
— Max Von Sydow
Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.
— Shekhar Kapur
I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.
— Hilary Swank
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it.
— Timothy Hutton
I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
— Yvonne Strahovski
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.
— Danny Boyle
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
— Jonathan Demme
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
— Jason Reitman
I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.
— Pawel Pawlikowski
You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.
— Dominic Cooper
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
— Robert Stromberg
There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.
— F. Gary Gray
People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
— Steve Martin
Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.
— Woody Harrelson
One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.
— Roger Corman
Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, Otto, let my people go!
— Mort Sahl