#film

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#characters #exist #fantastic #film #films

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#around #been #fifty #films #hundred

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#audience #career #doubt #films #get

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life. ↗

— Gary Kemp

#admit #band #did #direct #enough

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#dramas #experience #film #heavy #i

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was "Give me the fuckin money". ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#humor #idiom #mafia #mob #movie-business

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#down #ended #everything #film #footage

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#best #character #character development #characters #connection

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over. ↗

— John Lone

#cronenberg #david #film #friend #had

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant. ↗

— Mike Lookinland

#assistant #back #business #college #film