The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. - Dario Argento I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me. - Emmanuelle Beart I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman. - John Marsden I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me. - John Milius

I think they're having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus) - Sherrilyn Kenyon All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack. - Caprice Crane

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that. - Edward Burns That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel. - Edward Burns You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented. - Louis C K 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 People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag. - Christopher Mel...

You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry. - Kabir Bedi Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned. - Sanjay Dutt We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences. - Sanjay Dutt A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish. - Ismail Merchant Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. - Aishwarya Rai Till now, my conception of love has been based entirely on what I have seen in Hindi films, where the hero and the heroine make eye contact, and whoosh, some strange chemistry sets their hearts beating and their vocal chords tingling, and the next you see of them they are off singing songs in Swiss Villages a...

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise. - J J Johnson In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film. - Andrzej Wajda

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. - Griffin Dunne It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. - Bela Lugosi The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. - Jack Valenti Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. - Tony Visconti

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style. - Lawrence Kasdan With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it. - Larry Wachowski Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for. - Larry Wachowski I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! - Marie Windsor

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad. - James Cameron You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything. - James Cameron I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them. - Peter Cushing I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. - Julie Delpy Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception. - Ben Edwards This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is ev...

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception. - Ben Edwards The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat. - Ray Milland Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the "Nation," it's time for all of us to sit up and worry. - Arundhati Roy I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part ...

You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry. - Kabir Bedi I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. - Samantha Bee Now I don't know if you realize it, but the film industry's a small world. It's like living in a tenement at one end of a back alley. Not only do you see everybody's dirty laundry, but once rumors start, you can't stop 'em. - Haruki Murakami The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer. - James Cameron If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though. - Diane Cilento I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters. - Amanda Seyfried No wonder the film industry started in the ...

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? - Christina Aguilera We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. - Gael Garcia Bernal A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime. - Connie Britton I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad. - Saffron Burrows I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. - Leslie Caron I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film F...

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. - D B Sweeney You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames. - Robert Wise

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. - Ray Harryhausen Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does. - Walter Murch

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. - Danny Boyle It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. - Alan Cumming Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays. - Thomas Harrison I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'. - Mako Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast. - Yvonne Strahovski

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. - Danny Boyle The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. - Robert Olen Butler It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. - Alan Cumming The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. - Sergei Eisenstein Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write t...

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. - Gael Garcia Bernal I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. - Beau Bridges When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad. - Ken Burns I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. - Ken Burns In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. - Alfred Hitchcock So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then ...

finally has figured out there aren't enough quiet little British films around to protect her from the real world - Brian Andreas The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. - Rupert Everett When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money. - Anthony Minghella Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. - Mike Leigh I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a ...

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film. - Roland Joffe I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there. - Brad Pitt You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop. - Brad Pitt

I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do. - Gemma Arterton When they're good, there is nothing like a big film. - Danny Boyle The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers. - Greta Gerwig You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience. - Crispin Glover Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling. - Christopher Parker Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. - Renee Zellweger

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined. - Bruce Beresford All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. - Francis Ford Coppola I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. - Barbara Hershey I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing. - Barbara Hershey All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Comm...