Top 280 Film Industry Quotes

My father, Inder Raj Anand, was a well-known writer in the film industry but he did not want me, or my younger brother Bittu, to enter this industry. He would say it was not the place for us.

I’m working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

As long as you know how to handle yourself, the film industry is probably one of the best places to work in.

I never thought I’d get married to someone from the film industry. I still remember telling my parents that I want to get married somewhere abroad and live there, away from everything.

The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It’s inward-looking.

Terry’s mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

Indian film industry has shot films all over the world and we get a lot of benefits and facilities while shooting our films in foreign locations.

I don’t choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we’re working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can’t buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.

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.

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

My first American role I got was ‘Dora.’ That was my big break into the American film industry.

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn’t go into the film industry.

It’s high time the film industry stopped treating fair skin as a parameter of beauty. You could be the fairest of them all, but if you have a wicked soul, you aren’t beautiful at all. So, skin colour doesn’t define a person’s beauty.

In the film industry, 60 per cent is luck and 40 per cent is availing the right opportunities.

Chandigarh has tremendous untapped potential as a Film City to cater to the Punjabi and Bollywood film industry.

Raj Khosla’s ‘Mera Gaon Mera Desh’ was my truly memorable performance as a villain during my initial years. After that I did receive the required foothold in the film industry.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it’s hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

Nobody wants to get into controversies, especially in the film industry. I do not wish to be a controversial girl. But sometimes you have to take tough decisions that might eventually help your career.

I came into the film industry when I was 35 years old; I reckon it’s a bit late to start with that.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

‘Bad Taste’ was – it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn’t really have a film industry to break into.

The film industry is large enough and has many successful icons that have taken Indian cinema to shores beyond India. I think that Indian cinema itself needs to be applauded beyond one individual.

I’ve never felt that my job was difficult because I’m a woman. It’s a difficult job regardless, and it’s even more difficult in Lebanon because there’s no film industry. There’s no structure, funding, or institutions for filmmakers.

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That’s why we live in an era where you see reboots and sequels and remakes and prequels, all these old presents are re-wrapped and offered up as new gifts.

I can’t frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don’t take as much time as they used to. For example, they’ll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

Somebody with no connection to the film industry may succeed, and somebody with all connections to the industry may not.

I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I’m very liberal, and that doesn’t always go down well in the film industry – especially when you’ve got to appeal to mums and daughters.

At the age of 16, I ran from my house, did odd jobs till l landed work on television and then in film industry. My first job was at an STD booth in Delhi. Then I came to Mumbai, where I distributed DVDs, and that is when I got my first TV show offer, ‘Left Right Left.’ I have never planned things in my career.

My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.

The best thing my parents did was to make me study in Chennai. I was in a school where most others around me were also from film industry families so none of us realised what our parents were.

I realise that surviving in the film industry is not an easy job, but if one puts one’s heart and soul into one’s work, anything is possible.

In Hindi film industry, the maximum one can do is try and make a film like ‘Badhaai Ho’ or ‘Andhadhun,’ but if I want to make something of the level of ‘Kanchivaram’ it is impossible. If I will make that kind a film, it will have no traction.

I have no regrets for not having a solo career in Bollywood because when I joined the film industry I was 35 years old. Nobody gets solo leads when they start their career at this age.

I’d 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.

I have almost forgotten that I have a relationship with film industry as most of the time political meetings, attending Parliament and meeting people of my constituency has been consuming my time.

I am delighted to have won a place in both Tamil and Telugu film industry.

I am getting good roles in the Telugu film industry. And people are also liking my work. I dub the films myself and this makes a huge difference.

I don’t discuss my journey in the Hindi film industry since it is something personal to me.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

Undoubtedly, there are a number of well-developed, mainly female, stars helping Miss Taylor to hold the film industry together: Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, etc. But such an insistence on cheesecake smells of bankruptcy.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you’re going to hit someone in the film industry.

For the regional film industry, it’s a great feeling that a Dev film is being seen as a competition to a Salman movie.

There is always a hit and a flop, it’s part of working in the film industry.

The Punjabi film industry is fairly new and needs all the support it can get.

It’s no exaggeration that nepotism exists in our film industry. Had I not been the daughter of Chunky Panday, it would not be that easy for me.

I am proud because when the history of Bhojpuri film industry will be written my name will be there.

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.

When a common man is discouraged to buy a movie ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire film industry. I think entertainment tax is too steep.

A lot of people in the film industry are fatalists who think a worthwhile film will always achieve its destiny, and the films that aren’t worthwhile won’t. It’s all sort of pre-determined, etc. And I don’t think that’s true at all.

Ever since I gave the nod for Chattakari,’ I’ve been flooded with offers from the Malayalam film industry, like never before.

For me, talking about the casting couch in the Malayalam film industry was like calling the sky blue. There is nothing new about calling a spade a spade. My intention was not to create an effect; I just wanted to pluck a few weeds in the system and throw them out.

I think in general, and in the film industry, that idea of having only one type of girl is changing. There’s more variety because it’s the world we live, and we want to portray that.

I have a special attachment to ‘Bitter Sweet’ and feel grateful because it introduced me to people in the film industry overseas and helped me experience Hollywood.