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Quotes about filmmaking reveal the art, struggle, and imagination behind bringing stories to life on screen. They reflect the balance between technical craft and emotional truth that defines the medium. The following collection offers perspectives from those who see cinema not just as entertainment, but as a powerful way of seeing the world.   ◀ Back
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The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
- John Naisbitt
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As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
- Ellen Stofan
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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
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One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'
- Liam Hemsworth
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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
- Liam Neeson
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It is true that I got recognition. But however good the comedies are, nobody will accept a good comedy director as a good director. That is the sad part of it. Nobody knows who directed the 'Laurel and Hardy' movies. They know only Laurel and Hardy. Directors will never get a good name if they direct a comedy film.
- Priyadarshan
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Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
- John Candy
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The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
- David Lyons
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
- Uwe Boll
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I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
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I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.
- Robbie Coltrane
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I love good versus evil. It always works. Even when you look at superhero movies, the action is really cool and all that, but what sucks you in is good trying to overcome evil.
- Tommaso Ciampa
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Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
- Avi Arad
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Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.
- David Fanning
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How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.
- John Lee Hancock
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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
- Ang Lee
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Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
- Melvin Van Peebles
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I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.
- Dennis Quaid
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I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.
- Lucy Hale
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Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.
- Jacqueline McKenzie
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I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
- Rani Mukerji
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I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
- Edward Burns
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I love horror movies! I've loved horror movies since I was about eight years old, not that an 8-year-old should be watching 'The Shining', but I was allowed to for some reason.
- Alex Breckenridge
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When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.
- Richard Jenkins
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The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
- John Naisbitt
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As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
- Ellen Stofan
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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'
- Liam Hemsworth
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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
- Liam Neeson
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It is true that I got recognition. But however good the comedies are, nobody will accept a good comedy director as a good director. That is the sad part of it. Nobody knows who directed the 'Laurel and Hardy' movies. They know only Laurel and Hardy. Directors will never get a good name if they direct a comedy film.
- Priyadarshan
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Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
- John Candy
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The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
- David Lyons
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
- Uwe Boll
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I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.
- Robbie Coltrane
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I love good versus evil. It always works. Even when you look at superhero movies, the action is really cool and all that, but what sucks you in is good trying to overcome evil.
- Tommaso Ciampa
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Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
- Avi Arad
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Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.
- David Fanning
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How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.
- John Lee Hancock
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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
- Ang Lee
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Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
- Melvin Van Peebles
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I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.
- Dennis Quaid
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I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.
- Lucy Hale
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Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.
- Jacqueline McKenzie
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I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
- Rani Mukerji
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I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
- Edward Burns
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I love horror movies! I've loved horror movies since I was about eight years old, not that an 8-year-old should be watching 'The Shining', but I was allowed to for some reason.
- Alex Breckenridge
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When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.
- Richard Jenkins
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The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
- John Naisbitt
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As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
- Ellen Stofan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'
- Liam Hemsworth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
- Liam Neeson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is true that I got recognition. But however good the comedies are, nobody will accept a good comedy director as a good director. That is the sad part of it. Nobody knows who directed the 'Laurel and Hardy' movies. They know only Laurel and Hardy. Directors will never get a good name if they direct a comedy film.
- Priyadarshan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
- John Candy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
- David Lyons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
- Uwe Boll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.
- Robbie Coltrane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love good versus evil. It always works. Even when you look at superhero movies, the action is really cool and all that, but what sucks you in is good trying to overcome evil.
- Tommaso Ciampa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
- Avi Arad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.
- David Fanning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.
- John Lee Hancock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
- Ang Lee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
- Melvin Van Peebles
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I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.
- Dennis Quaid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.
- Lucy Hale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.
- Jacqueline McKenzie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
- Rani Mukerji
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
- Edward Burns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love horror movies! I've loved horror movies since I was about eight years old, not that an 8-year-old should be watching 'The Shining', but I was allowed to for some reason.
- Alex Breckenridge
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When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.
- Richard Jenkins
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