Browsing Topic Best Film Quotes

May the Force be with you.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but ‘Cabin In The Woods’ cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

Following ‘Urumi,’ I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Michael made his debut in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.

A film can be big or small – I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, ‘You should do that for your career; it’s a big thing, people will go and see it,’ but I wouldn’t be able to, because my heart wouldn’t be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they’re brooding all the time.

A movie isn’t a political movement, a party or even an article. It’s just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

It’s kind of weird to meet people that grew up in films who are still in touch with reality.

The only thing I’ll say, and I’m sure everyone says this, is stick with it. I’m not shy about telling people about the fact that my dream was to go to USC film school when I was growing up in New Jersey. I got rejected five times. You just keep going, keep going, keep going.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It’s an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

I’ve got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

Film is not a form, it has forms

My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss ideas. You research the characters and figure out the components of their look through your own vision. You create a color palette for a film, television or stage medium and discuss it with the director of photography who then lights your colored subjects.

I’ve learnt so much from every film and every director – a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

I love independent films because I love to help, I love to assist, I love to pass along knowledge or experience to young filmmakers because usually, that’s what they are. They’re young filmmakers who are trying to either just simply tell their stories or trying to break into show business, and this is their calling card. But either way, I just really respect young filmmakers who are trying to tell a story that means something to them.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

Why do we tell stories? It’s because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to tell them a story that affects us, that impacts us. And to help a young filmmaker doing a short or independent film is my testament, I think, is my desire to really make sure that our younger generations get passed along all the elders’ experience and to literally have the image – to literally carry them on their shoulders and say, ‘This is what the world is. This is how the world operates. Let me show you how.’

I’ve never been funny. I don’t think I’m funny. People say I’m funny. I go, ‘No. No. I’m not.’ But again, knowing what it means to film on a TV show and on film, you have to repeat, repeat, repeat. You have to do the same thing a number of times if you’re filming a sequence. And to carry that energy in a comedic mode, would be a challenge that I really would frightfully scared, but I’d have to buck up and pull up my bootstraps and say, ‘I can do this. Let’s figure it out.’

I only really watch my own films, I don’t watch any other films and I don’t particularly like any other actors.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they’re all lawyers. I’m in the family business.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.

I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don’t make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

The film is made in the editing room.

No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore’s music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.

I’m confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don’t know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That’s the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.