Great Film Quotes
On chasing the film that actually lands.
This page leans into the gap between a great film and a great career, including one filmmaker's blunt point that plenty of people make one great film and never follow it up. Pair it with Impact quotes for more on lasting creative work.
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Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
Art Quotes
The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.
I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always...
I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan...
I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had...
Emotion Quotes
My favourite film is probably 'Star Wars'. I do love 'Starship Troopers', it is a great film but it's not a film I watch over and over again. Whereas 'Star Wars' I've watched over and over again all my life,...
We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.
The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is...
Escape Quotes
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.
I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to...
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.
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There's also an honest thread about chasing the experience of moviemaking even when the result isn't a masterpiece, plus a nod to rewatching a favorite endlessly. Follow with Escape quotes for more on why films stay with us.
