Quotes About Film

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I just love movies.

No one can emulate such film, video, history, book, and whatever else as its memories can reflect and mirror exactly from its childhood until now.

Adaptation for film is, by definition, a process of editorializing.

The bigger the controversy hounding the movie, the higher the chance of it being just a part of film publicity; especially when its lead actor is propagated as a big celebrity.

The compatibility of character only brings two people together and this can be seen even in the real behavioral nature of film personality acting in the same reel movie.

The shortest route to enter into the Indian film industry for a female actor is not through an acting school, but often via a beauty pageant show.

In Aditya Chopra's old office, there used to hang a poster of DDLJ with the following inscription by Shah Rukh Khan: "More than half my career ago, you gave me a dream to cherish all my life. My kids will see it, my grandchildren will love it and I'm sure even in heaven they are playing our film – so my parents would have seen it too. Thanx for taking me to them and making me the star I'm today. Lots of love and come let's make some more dreams together.

Director Steven Spielberg bought the only remaining Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) for $55,000 at auction at Sotheby's. He called the sled 'a symbolic emblem of quality in the film business'.

This is the only film in which Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar acted together.

Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

Citizen Kane is widely considered the best film ever made.

Citizen Kane still tops most lists as the best film ever made.

The producer of the film Nariman Irani passed away six months before the release and Chandra Barot had no money for the film's promotions.

Eighty per cent of Deewaar was shot at night. Amitabh Bachchan shot for Deewaar at night and during the day for Sholay.

This film is ultimate proof that truth is stranger than fiction.

I made this film for the Brazilian middle class. It was an opportunity for me to find out more about my country. We abandoned this part of society and now we are reaping the consequences. – Director Fernando Meirelles

The film was based on a short story written by a customs officer, and was based on his experiences.

When audiences rejected Ace in the Hole, Wilder said: "F*** them all. It's the best picture I ever made.

The Kazakh authorities banned the film and threatened to sue the comedian after its release in 2006. But later Kazakhstan's foreign minister said he is 'grateful' to Borat for 'helping attract tourists' to the country.