Quotes About Film

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me the most. I would never give it up or separate myself from it.

I'm friends with many actors across the southern film industry, who've been my co-stars, too, and with whom I share a great rapport.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.

A live show is a room full of sound and people and now you have technology where people can film it and take it away and all that is lost afterwards but they have a souvenir.

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

It was a sickness: this great interest in a medium that relentlessly and consistently failed, time after time after time, to produce anything at all. People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

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Hollywood producer's screening room.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

We made 'Arjun Reddy' with Rs 5-6 crores. And it seems it will make a lot more money than we had thought it would. So you see, miracles do happen! I believe in them.

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

A film is a mirror image of our society. If there's something wrong with the way we make films or the way women are stereotyped, then it means that it's happening in real life.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.