Film-making often asks for devotion rather than glamour. As Laurence Olivier put it: “I have to act to live.”

The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

I supply a presence. ~ Charles Bronson

I think tripods, cranes, and dollies are artificial. Handheld, when well-used, creates immediacy and reality. ~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never been to make shocking movies. ~ Pedro Almodóvar

I’ve never done nudity in my whole career. I don’t think it’s necessary for the work I’ve done. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

I’m always cribbing from real life. I’m not a very creative filmmaker. ~ Kevin Smith

There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. And you like them. ~ David Carradine

An attitude will give you heft. ~ Carl Reiner

Acting is pretending, and I wanted to be taken seriously. You don’t want to trade life for success. ~ Gardner McKay

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it. ~ Vincente Minnelli

When you make a movie, leave personal problems at home. Put the drama into the story. ~ Robert DeNiro

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama. ~ John Forsythe

The cinema makes it possible to experience without danger excitement and desire that must otherwise be repressed. ~ Carl Jung

Of all the arts, cinema probably has the most powerful ability to channel our reactions through the way people use their eyes. ~ David Bordwell

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is. ~ John Woo