Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. – Kevin Spacey
Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. However, to have your work seen on such a large scale, that’s a very exciting prospect. – Liz Tuccillo
I did a film called ‘Days and Nights,’ which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull.’ – Juliet Rylance
I’m not being really intelligent in my film choices; I’m just landing the opportunity when it comes. – Ranbir Kapoor
Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina. – Parminder Nagra
Many times I felt like I’d do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn’t have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there’d be battles of egos. – Ray Harryhausen
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. – Patricia Highsmith
Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface. – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
I was really affected by ‘The Piano.’ Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn’t have gone to film school. – Paul Schneider
If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do. – Quentin Tarantino
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film… at least in Hollywood studio films. – Richard LaGravenese
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival. – Salma Hayek
I didn’t want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that. – Ryan Gosling
Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. – Rupert Grint
