Great Films Quotes

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

I want to do movies with great stories. The content should be strong.

Great horror films don't win Academy Awards.

Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.

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.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.

I'm generally not a fan of remaking great films.

I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.

I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

There's work for everybody, and I believe every actor gets what he/she deserves. Honestly, I just want to work as long as I can and do great films and act with every good actor around.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.

We have a strong tradition in Toronto of really great film writers, and growing up in that climate is a big reason I pursued cinema studies.