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Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Robert Bresson

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

John Wooden

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

Paul Hogan

These are the kind of films that are the responsibility of a festival.

Peter Scarlet

Mostly, I've made independent films that don't see the light of day.

Rachael Leigh Cook

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

David Mamet

It is not enough to show leaflets and films against racism in our stadiums.

Gerardo Gonzalez

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

Paul Auster

There are the kind (of films) where you are entertained and the kind where you are edified.

Brian Sky

I don't have to look at the films, ... I have a film playing in my head all of the time.

Marty Turco

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

Paul Newman

These days more films are going to people than people are going to films.

Peter Greenaway

Both films are real hard sells.

Connie Nielsen

It's not always easy to predict what the popular films are. For me, every movie is a big event. It's like they're all my children.

Meg Hamel

Most films of this type are really bad, and ours is too good.

Joe Callero

I like to do all kinds of films.

Pam Grier

I think with Huston, you could pick a dozen films.

Rob Bibler

We look for event films, films that are larger than life.

Jason Swanson

We show great films at very reasonable prices.

Frank Normile

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

Walter Hill

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

Adam Duritz

I love watching NFL Films and ESPN Classic.

William Johnson

My films all sell very well abroad. Since.

Patrice Chereau

It's one of the largest films Warner Bros. has ever made.

Bryan Singer

It's one of those films that just knocks your socks off.

Rob Bibler

I've enjoyed them many times, watching these films.

Gary Price

There seems to be nothing new under the sun here. The only thing different is it's G-rated films.

Stacy Smith

The secret to a lot of these films is allowing the time for the movie to breathe a bit (in theaters).

Bob Berney

They feel relieved already, ... it's almost like the cavalry arriving in the old films.

Steve Price

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

Campbell Scott

A lot of it was just absorbing stuff, watching really old films from the early '30s and late '20s.

Lisa Lambert

My education in film music came from watching tons of films.

Danny Elfman

Mostly what I do to pay the bills is a lot of writing for corporate training films and producing those.

Liz Stubbs

Content created for TV or films won't fly in broadband.

Mark Hardie

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Bob Hoskins

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films, because I wasn't.

Roddy Mcdowall

No one ever dreamt Mia Farrow had comedic abilities until she appeared in his films.

Leonard Maltin

A lot of it is down to chance, down to what films are ready. But this year there were more U.S. premieres than ever before.

Lee Marshall

There have been a lot of excellent films, character studies, and some on really tough subject matters.

Tom Ortenberg

The success of Indian cinema can be largely attributed to the music in films.

Dr. Sanjay K. Jha

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Nick Park

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Tom Wilkinson

We're a festival that was started because of an act of war, so we have always had films and panel discussions that bring up difficult subjects.

Jane Rosenthal

There can be lots of reasons for a film's delay.

Paul Dergarabedian

He's got a great talent for picking good films and developing them, ... Chicago.

Craig Zadan

He is the man to go to. He changed the way the military was portrayed in films and made it more accurate.

John Dahl

It was not deliberate, just that we didn't come across American films for this selection. And European cinema is expanding, especially in eastern states.

Mikel Olaciregui

It was something we saw in films. It's just something we picked up.

Frank Pagliuca

I do it because these films don't really get to be seen. I see these films as representing the underdog.

Scott Beibin

All are unique films that you will not likely see anywhere else.

Joshua Abbey

It's a real audience festival. Most of the films that come here already have a distributor, not like Cannes where filmmakers go to pick up a distributor. This is where people come to pick up buzz.

Laura Scarfo

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Billy Wilder

Ironically some of the most liked films so far ... were two films by Anglo-Saxon, established directors.

Lee Marshall

To be fair-not that I really care about being fair to anyone, ever-but to be fair, I'm sure that same ratio of bad films to good probably exists in every studio.

Alexander Payne

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

Roman Polanski

It's a hard country in which to make films, and the films that do get out are tough little devils.

Vincent Ward

We had hoped to be able to make enough films to be able to rationalize the cost of being our own distributor. Sadly, we were never able to make enough films to make that economically sound.

David Geffen

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

Yahoo Serious

We don't want to show films for the hell of it. We want our audience to enjoy it.

Ben Kent

You can't see films of this vintage on film and on the big screen. It is quite a powerful film of faith.

James D'arc

Distributors and filmmakers like me can see their films with real human beings.

James Schamus

She has plenty of respect for money when it comes to buying one of her films!

Michael Barker

If the next breakout films (come) on the phone, I would not be surprised.

Mark Bell

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Paul Robeson

Eleven films will be in the can, ... I don't think we'll have a blip on the radar screen.

Alex Yemenidjian

The film's not just about love, but growing up as well.

Rosamund Pike

Since the purpose of all actors is to entertain I appear frequently in the films that do just that - entertain.

Peter Cushing

We considered many more films this year. Our job was harder than ever before, but it also means we saw a better array of films than ever before.

Matt Dentler

Ang Lee is the best Chinese-language film director capable of exquisitely blending elements from the East and West in his films. And his experience in New York of course was crucial.

Liang Liang

If there had been anyone talking about bad films, I'd have to assume there had to be a bit of sour grapes going on.

Noah Cowan

As for commercial or independent films, that's not even a concern at this point.

Cole Mueller

My dentist said to me the other day, I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

David Cronenberg

These films are hilarious yet sad in their own ways.

John Riddle

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

Dinah Sheridan

[There weren't many easy choices.] There have been more than 30,000 films made, at least, ... To extract 100 was difficult.

Jay Carr

The creative opportunities are endless and exciting, ... After doing 44 feature films, where you always know what is going to happen and how it's going to end, I'm a little blown away.

Muse Watson

In every group of films from every continent.

Piers Handling

Films simply slip through the cracks.

Lou Diamond Phillips

These aren't the films that the studio are looking at.

Jonathan Sehring

It's definitely bigger, definitely more people, definitely more premieres than we've ever had before, more films than we've ever had before, more filmmakers than we've ever had before.

Matt Dentler

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

Bryan Singer

Some films are in ['The A List'] because they're pop cultural landmarks.

Jay Carr

One of the best films made by Tim Burton.

Joe Perry

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Angelina Jolie

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Alfred Hitchcock

He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.

Bruce Beresford

He has strived to achieve fame and success. He is more than a director. He has successfully blended East and West cultures in his films.

Lee Kang

The films lead to conversations, and conversations lead to greater awareness, a level of comfort with gay and lesbian Americans.

Neil Giuliano

In the films the good guy always wins, but this is one bad guy who ain't gonna lose.

Sonny Liston

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Anthony Minghella

Our films have always received critical acclaim. This festival is an attempt to bring Assamese cinema to a larger audience here.

Jahnu Barua

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

Frederick Wiseman

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

Chris Robinson

This year we liked a lot of new American films, more than usual.

Tom Luddy

All of their experiences were the stuff of epic films — things they had to go through in those 100 days. It was amazing.

Don Cheadle

I still try out for the bigger films, because they don't know me usually. But to the smaller films, no, they usually know me.

Campbell Scott

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

Jack Valenti

That opened the door for a lot of people who may not have thought they could make films.

Liz Stubbs

What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?

Eva Marie Saint

I'm sure there are some really interesting films in there that could be impossible to find anywhere else.

Eric Lin

I love well-done horror films.

Emilie De Ravin

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

Zhang Ziyi