Filming Quotes

Filming Quote of the day

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William, ' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.