The film and television industry is a realm of endless creativity, where art, technology, and storytelling converge. From actors to directors, writers to critics, many have shared their insights on the impact and magic of visual media. This collection of quotes captures the essence of the industry, offering unique perspectives on its power, challenges, and influence.
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
Christopher Hampton
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
David Fincher
Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
Dwayne Johnson
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Mel Brooks
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
Steven Spielberg
Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers