Quotes of: Film-festival Keyword

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

Werner Herzog

Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.

Wong Kar-wai

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Wole Soyinka

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Christopher McQuarrie

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

Guy Ritchie

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Isabelle Huppert

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

Laetitia Casta

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

Lea Salonga

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

Phoebe Cates

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

Paul Hogan

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

Ryan Gosling

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Shirley Knight

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

Gaby Hoffmann

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Romola Garai

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

Sharon Lawrence

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

Matthew Lewis

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admi...

EarthBound

The longing for improvement and the fear of waste and worse - it is a pattern still with us, and maybe it speaks to the medium's essential marriage of light and dark, or as Mary Pickford put it in her autobiography (published in 1955), Sunshine and S...

The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies--and What They Have Done to Us

…Maybe I’ll be watching super-8 home videos,” Alecto told her, smiling bleakly. “I love my super-8 camera, it’s an Eastman Kodak one… Kodak stopped manufacturing them, the world went digital and now Kodak has stopped making Kodachrome fil...

Smog City

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox fro...

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these film...

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