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The great appeal of film is its relatability. — Akira Kurosawa

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film. — Kieran Bew

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score. — Jerry Weintraub

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was the first film and the first good thing that I have done. — Craig Roberts

The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great. — Lauren Bacall

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments. — Roger Ebert

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. — Ridley Scott

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing. — James Iha

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly. — Louis Zamperini

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress. — Ingmar Bergman

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors. — Sam Rockwell

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do. — Damian Lewis

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. — John Hodgman

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production. — Agnieszka Holland

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? — Ridley Scott

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me. — George Ratliff

Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Looper is another great film. — Deyth Banger

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality. — Serena Williams

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you. — Maryse Alberti

Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better. — Rod Steiger

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature. — Joel Edgerton

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both. — Harry Lloyd

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. — Jeff Daniels

If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about. — Winona Ryder

I've had a great run with great projects. I love the film industry. It keeps you young; it really does. — Kellan Lutz

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great. — Christopher McQuarrie

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it. — Aaron Johnson

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world. — Juno Temple

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. — Sam Peckinpah

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them. — Jessica Chastain

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that. — Bennett Miller

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film. — Nick Nolte

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around. — John Boyega

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script. — Alfred Hitchcock

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. — Peter Gabriel

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success. — Deepika Padukone

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done. — Ann Dowd

One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film. — Joe Berlinger

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about. — Peter Jackson

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. — Francois Truffaut

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story. — Sarah Waters

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film. — Lee Daniels

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor. — Matt Dillon

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre. — Richard C. Armitage

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece. — Laurie Holden

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique. — Gwyneth Paltrow

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker. — Len Lye

I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on. — Cate Blanchett

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point. — Sarah Gadon

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in. — Rufus Sewell

I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir

Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor. — Colin Trevorrow

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make. — Jonathan Glazer

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes. — Wim Wenders

I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving. — Zac Efron

I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film. — Katherine McNamara

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. — Pamela Yates

I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first. — Jay Presson Allen

The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium. — Kenneth Cranham

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive. — Larry Wilcox

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it. — Guy Pearce

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film. — Shirley Knight

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. — Charlie Hunnam

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television. — Tamara Tunie

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson

It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater. — Pablo Schreiber

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast. — Glenn Frey

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. — Jeff Bridges

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. — Ava DuVernay

You Can't Kill Stephen King, the great film of all time what more awesome than that??
You can't guess or find who is the killer! — Deyth Banger

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. — Alexander Payne

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get. — Tim Bevan

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. — June Allyson

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast. — James Wolk

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. — Rebecca De Mornay

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. — Laura Dern

A great novel is worth one thousand films. — Oscar Hijuelos

Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. — John Glen

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made. — Mike Newell

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert — Roger Ebert

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? — Christy Lemire

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time. — Melissa George

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film. — Peter Hedges

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? — Neil Jordan

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume. — Clemence Poesy

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey. — Sam Worthington

I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you. — Baz Luhrmann

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. — Alexander Payne

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into. — William Mapother

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. — Paul Dano

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting? — Thomas Kretschmann

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them. — Anthony Minghella

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up. — Woody Harrelson

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! — Gene Wilder