Ann Macbeth Quotes

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.

I'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.

The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

I think, quite often, filmmakers kind of think so much about what the franchise will be and sometimes can neglect to put their efforts into the movie that they are actually making.

The R K banner has had this tradition to make good films, and good films always take a lot of time to complete because of the hassles involved.

I've worked with Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Olive Stone and David Gordon Green, and Damien Chazelle on 'First Man.' When you have someone at the helm like that, they're gonna make something great.

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

I will always endeavour to bring out the best films.

The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.

I just want to do films which I enjoy doing and the audience will too like it watching.

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.