It used to reflect a budget. Now 'independent film' means anything under $10 million. That's what people are saying now. But, that's not really true. I think independent films means you did everything independently.
Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date. - Uma Thurman
Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard. - Uma Thurman
More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies. - Uma Thurman
I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies. - Sean Connery
Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true. - Sean Connery
So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done. - Brad Pitt
At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian. - Sylvester Stallone
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling. - Brad Pitt
I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up. - Brad Pitt
Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing. - Mel Gibson
The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker. - Mel Gibson
I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here. - Mel Gibson
I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again. - Mel Gibson
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from. - Mel Gibson
Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do. - Mel Gibson
I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common. - Ian McKellen
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures. - Keanu Reeves
From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have. - Stanley Kubrick
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better. - Stanley Kubrick
[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. - Stanley Kubrick
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