I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about. – Emily Browning
Ironically, it’s easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution. – Edward Zwick
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that’s what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable. – Christine Vachon
I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn’t come out yet. – Casper Van Dien
I’ve always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did. – Cliff Martinez
Personally, I consider ‘Titanic’ the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie. – Diablo Cody
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college. – Damien Chazelle
Film is pop art. It’s not whether it’s auteur cinema or not; that’s a false distinction. Cinema is cinema. – Denis Villeneuve
Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side. – Norman Davies
There’s something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I’m always tempted to go in that direction. – David Chase
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images. – Michael Haneke
When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that’s where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I’d forgotten I’d done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. – David Ogden Stiers
There was no studio involved when we made ‘Stargate.’ It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie. – Dean Devlin
The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late ’60s, the film rights. – Peter Jackson
Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens – be it film or a digital sensor – is a little more receptive. – David Hewson
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. – Michael Haneke
In terms of my own film experience, I’m definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas. – Mia Kirshner
