Film Industry Quotes - Page 7

• If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Passion, Next Day, Energy

  "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2004.

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• The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

  Stephen Daldry

  Successful, Class, People

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Class, Everyday, India

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• Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Issues, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Fans, Festivals, Film

  "Sundance 2012: Melanie Lynskey on the Rise of Female Protagonists and Which Screenings She Hopes to Catch (Q&A)". Interview with Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 19, 2012.

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• National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

  Peter Weir

  Moving, Australia, Feelings

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• I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.

  Zoe Saldana

  Kids, Watches, Able

  Source: www.filmindustrynetwork.biz

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• It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

  Peter Capaldi

  Storm, Film, British

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

  Chuck Connors

  Baseball, Games, Debt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

  Mike Leigh

  Insecurity, Problem, Film

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

  Eric Stoltz

  Home, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.

  Nico Tortorella

  Writing, People, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  David Wenham

  People, Film, Peter

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