#films

It's a sin to have your films not to make money. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#make #money #sin #your

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#actually #been #done #ever #everything

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#always #am #audiences #comedy #did

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#beginning #being #commercial #commercial films #deciding

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#escaping #especially #films #ones #prison

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

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I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#family #few #films #lot #solid

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. ↗

— Jane Campion

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