#film

My private life has nothing to do with my films. ↗

— Fritz Lang

#life #nothing #private #private life

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films. ↗

— John Lasseter

#amazed #beautiful #films #heart #how

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#been #films #i #identify #interested

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere. ↗

— Jim McKay

#filmmaker #guns #hand #i #make

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#distracting #done #element #film #gate

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#enough #filmmaker #going #good #got

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#compliment #exactly #fan #filmmaker #frustrated

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#already #built #capable #chosen #everyone

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#been #bette #bette davis #biggest #davis

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#accomplish #art #creates #direction #etc