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You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it. -- Robert Altman
Every great film should seem new every time you see it. -- Roger Ebert
People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them. -- Johnny Depp
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script. -- Alfred Hitchcock
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up. -- John Waters
I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first. -- Jay Presson Allen
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes. -- Wim Wenders
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. -- Francois Truffaut
While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV. -- Terry Semel
I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film. -- Michael Giacchino
With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see . -- Peter Jackson
I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood." -- Jonathan Jackson
As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. -- David Hare
You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star. -- Charlize Theron
I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. -- Ali MacGraw
Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer. -- Paul Auster
There's a para-phrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all. -- Colin Firth
Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films. -- Boman Irani
I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation. -- Richard Schiff
I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up. -- John Carpenter
The great appeal of film is its relatability. -- Akira Kurosawa
I never had a great role in a great film. -- Gloria Stuart
If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about. -- Winona Ryder
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. -- Rita Mae Brown
Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up. -- Woody Harrelson
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. -- Alexander Payne
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! -- Gene Wilder
Every great film should seem new every time you see it."Roger Ebert -- Roger Ebert
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. -- Jeff Bridges
Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor. -- Colin Trevorrow
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film. -- Mads Mikkelsen
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive. -- Larry Wilcox
Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around. -- John Boyega
The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? -- Christy Lemire
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film -- Annette Funicello
When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex. -- Guido Palau
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film. -- Annette Funicello
Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there. -- Russell Crowe
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker. -- Len Lye
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. -- John Hodgman
There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film. -- Kieran Bew
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film. -- Shirley Knight
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. -- Laura Dern
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress. -- Ingmar Bergman
If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it. -- Guy Pearce
Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get. -- Tim Bevan
I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make. -- Jonathan Glazer
Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress. -- Gaby Hoffmann
There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. -- Gaby Hoffmann
I read the book [ 'Middle School' ]! There was nothing specific really, I think everything in the film was great! -- Jacob Hopkins
Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful. -- Jenni Rivera
I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors. -- Sam Rockwell
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. -- Rebecca De Mornay
I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature. -- Joel Edgerton
I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature. -- Joel Edgerton
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? -- Neil Jordan
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. -- Sam Peckinpah
Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score. -- Jerry Weintraub
'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score. -- Jerry Weintraub
I've had a great run with great projects. I love the film industry. It keeps you young; it really does. -- Kellan Lutz
I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre. -- Richard C. Armitage
My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around. -- Sandra Bullock
The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. -- Jack Nicholson
Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them. -- Jessica Chastain
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. -- Pamela Yates
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. -- Jean Renoir
You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great. -- Bill Murray
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time. -- Melissa George
I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting? -- Thomas Kretschmann
I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production. -- Agnieszka Holland
Each film does bring a new set of personalities and it can turn out great or it can turn out not great. -- Christophe Beck
In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast. -- James Wolk
One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into. -- William Mapother
After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby]. -- Paul Dalio
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story. -- Sarah Waters
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. -- Peter Gabriel
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both. -- Harry Lloyd
Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself. -- Neve Campbell
I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much. -- Chad Stahelski
I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood. -- Terry Bozzio
To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable. -- Kirsten Dunst
[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television. -- Harrison Ford
The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done. -- Ann Dowd
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. -- Jeff Daniels
I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing. -- James Iha
Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey. -- Sam Worthington
I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor. -- Matt Dillon
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film. -- Peter Hedges
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece. -- Laurie Holden
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert -- June Allyson
One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film. -- Joe Berlinger
I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great. -- Christopher McQuarrie
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin. -- Peter Straughan
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. -- June Allyson
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. -- Alexander Payne
I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby , the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then. -- Robert Davi
I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things. -- Eric Bana
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film. -- Martin Compston
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture. -- Andy Serkis
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. -- Ridley Scott
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. -- Ava DuVernay
A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume. -- Clemence Poesy
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them. -- Cillian Murphy
I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving. -- Zac Efron
The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly. -- Louis Zamperini
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open. -- Charlie Barnett
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. -- John Glen
I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on. -- Cate Blanchett
It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time. -- Anjelica Huston
We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility. -- Haskell Wexler
I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made. -- Mike Newell
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments. -- Roger Ebert
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities. -- Carter Burwell

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