#film

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies. ↗

— John Singleton

#also #because #crutch #filmmaker #filmmaking

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#films #gamble #gambler #must #produce

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american films #because #begin #comedies #comedy

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch? ↗

— Gene Siskel

#film #having #interesting #lunch #more

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#digital #film #french #i #main

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#completely #film #gone #had #hercules

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#almost #film #form #go #impossible

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#after #another #any #back #bond

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #back #care #eating #every

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

#cost #fact #films #i #important