Quotes About Films

I like to do realistic films as well as sensible humourous subjects, just because I think these films are only capable to attract people to the theatres. Though I agree that serious movies are also good and I like to watch them, it is a fact that majority of the people are hesitant to go to theatres for those films.

Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

Most of the independent films I've been involved with all had European subsidy or co-production agreements.

As far as films are concerned, I would take up only those roles which are challenging and have some substance in them.

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.

I make it a point to pick films that tell you a story in an engaging way. I can't compromise on the content. The script has to be substantial and impactful.

I'd love to do more Tamil films; unfortunately, I don't get any substantial roles.

Small films, made on shoe-string budget work in big centres, and for that a substantial amount of budget should be set aside for marketing.

I prefer to take up films where I have a substantial role and screen space, though there's nothing like a conscious decision of doing one film a year because I haven't reached that stage yet.

All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

If we make films only for the frontbenchers, we can't make money. Hence, we have to make it for a majority audience. As my films are mass films, I deal with emotions in raw form - they are not subtle. I don't mind being branded. That does not mean I like only those kinds of films.

What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.

I think it's much harder to make dramatic films, and much harder to create a film that's engaging, where you're actually properly looking at real characters and subtleties.

I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Did you know that Ubik is true, and we're in a sort of cave, like Plato said, and they're showing us endless funky films? And now and then reality breaks through, as in Ubik, from our friend who was here once and then died, but has turned back … he talked something about a new view of the Platonic forms, the archetypal forms. But he was unable to explain.

The tribbles were really made by a fellow named Wah Chang—he did much of STAR TREK's special effects work, but he's also well known for his work in films like Jack the Giant Killer, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, and other fantasies requiring unusual effects or animation.

Though games were barely acknowledged as a legitimate form of expression, let alone a legitimate art form, Tom was convinced that they were almost sublime forms of communication, just as films or novels. After

Motion picture rights brought in a fortune and, with 109 films based on his work, Grey set a record yet to be equaled by any other author.