Top 55 Feature Film Quotes

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

I’m being photographed, worrying about my hair – and yet here I am, I’ve directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It’s still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early ’80s.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn’t finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn’t get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let’s do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

The first writer I developed a script with was John Hughes, and that was ‘Mr. Mom.’ That was my first feature film.

People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of ‘Outlander’ for years and years and years.

Even before ‘Moon,’ I did a short film called ‘Whistle,’ and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.

I’m interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you’d see in a typical feature film.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn’t think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you’re 40 ft. high, it’s rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it’s actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can – to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do.

I never like to stick to one media; whether it’s a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.

Let’s put it this way: if I were to direct a feature film, I would not be in it.

I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I’m really chuffed about.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing – definitely not writing – one feature film.

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life – the story behind my art – through the medium of motion pictures.

I think what’s so great about making your first feature film is that you’re so naive in some ways; you don’t know what to expect, and you don’t question things as much because you’re just trying to figure it out as you go.

It’s called ‘Fight Valley,’ and it’s my first feature film. I just dove in and did the best I could. I don’t think I’m gonna win any Academy Awards on this one. I had fun with it and hopefully will get more opportunities like that. It’s about two sisters, one poor and one rich, and one goes into underground fighting.

I like doing them and they’re ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don’t have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They’re really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now.’

Dragon’s Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

I’d love to be in a feature film, and I don’t just mean in a starring role – it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

In a feature film, the question of censorship always comes up.

I feel like something I’ve wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

We’ve always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really wanted it to hit home with people.

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.

We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

When I worked on 2001 – which was my first feature film – I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

‘The Best Man’ was my first feature film, and I didn’t want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

I think of all media, television is the most powerful when it comes to selling books, because when you have a feature film, yeah, there’s a rush. But then after that month is over and the movie goes out of release, that’s it.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

The documentary feature film ‘Legion of Brothers’ tells the stories of the handful of U.S. Special Forces soldiers who, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, went into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and, within a matter of weeks, overthrew the Taliban regime.

When you’re writing for a game – even if you’re using very well known characters like Batman and his villains who lend themselves to many different interpretations – you have to keep in mind that you’re writing for a different medium. Things are a bit more straightforward than it is for a feature film or a TV show.

Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples’ lives and their struggles.

I’d love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I’ve made get a wide release. I’m not sure that’s ever going to happen.

Directly after Rock Hudson’s death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would live long enough to finish a feature film or television series? And would the unions force directors to give blood tests and ban actors who tested positive?

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn’t want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.

It’s tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

I’m used to adapting my novels for feature film – it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

I get better roles in television. I’m not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

I want to direct a feature film. Horror is my main genre.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

‘3’ was initially not a feature film but a short movie.

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a feature film.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil’s first movie and my first movie.

I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.

My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on ‘This Is England.’

Pixar’s short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it’s quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

I was on ‘The O.C.’ and had a small part, which wasn’t very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we’ll see what happens.