Euzhan Palcy quote: "My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck."

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we progr...
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN

They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don'...
JOHN WATERS

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I&#...
LLOYD KAUFMAN

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't belie...
EMRAAN HASHMI

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it'...
CLIVE BARKER

I just stick to my job, which is acting. Things like posters, publicity material, and promotions are...
RANVEER SINGH

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audien...
NEIL JORDAN

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have a...
TREVOR RABIN

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happen...
JONAS MEKAS

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen th...
MONICA BELLUCCI

I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an act...
DARREN CRISS

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it'...
GRANT HESLOV

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's ...
SHAHID KAPOOR

It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden...
BILLY CRUDUP

I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
YASMINE AL MASRI

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is...
AVA DUVERNAY

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films,...
RUPERT FRIEND

When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ...
MAHESH BABU

Everybody hates to edit my film. Back in the day, we called it film - now, my digital cards. But I s...
CAROL GUZY

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.
PETER EISENMAN

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's fa...
AUNJANUE ELLIS

I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to...
VIVICA A. FOX

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
MICHAEL RAPAPORT

Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and ...
PENELOPE ANN MILLER

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some f...
MIRA NAIR

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use i...
BEN STILLER

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Inter...
JAMES CROMWELL

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really li...
KIERAN CULKIN

I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I becom...
DAVID LYNCH

I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood....
GARRETT CLAYTON

I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't...
AASIF MANDVI

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like i...
JAMES CAMERON

I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, a...
ALAN LIGHTMAN

There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such...
MIRANDA OTTO

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. ...
CATHERINE HICKS

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it...
STEVE CARELL

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me...
CHANTAL AKERMAN

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
MIA WASIKOWSKA

I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police office...
NIVIN PAULY

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect ...
TONY JUDT

The one mistake you must never make is to agree to make a film or sign on to film that you don't...
PAUL GREENGRASS

I haven't done an international film for a long time.
SADIE FROST

I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in T...
AUDREY TAUTOU

It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is ...
BIPASHA BASU

I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed ...
BILL HADER

My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's...
JAMES GUNN

I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some re...
ISSA RAE

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
DONALD PLEASENCE

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's ...
TATIANA MASLANY

It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role....
OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but &...
ROBBIE COLTRAINE

I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.
PRIYANKA CHOPRA

I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don'...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It&#...
RICHARD LINKLATER

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhe...
CHANNING TATUM

There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I ...
AVA DUVERNAY

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
BEAU BRIDGES

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always ...
MATT DILLON

Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people...
CHAZ BONO

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it&#...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB

I don't want a Hollywood career. It's wonderful to have the possibility in your life just to...
CECILE DE FRANCE

Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but ...
MICHAEL CIMINO

Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT

I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it r...
BRODY JENNER

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monst...
RIDLEY SCOTT

'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black...
THURGOOD MARSHALL

I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from...
KATIE LEUNG

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I...
GARY OLDMAN

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
CHRISTIAN BALE

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger thin...
CAM NEWTON

My first film was a big dud at the box office, and my second film did decently. I used to wonder how...
SHRADDHA KAPOOR

My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people c...
BURNING SPEAR

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've m...
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD

I have picked a Chinese film at a Tibetan film festival purely for the breathtaking special effects ...
LOBSANG WANGYAL

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make s...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is boomin...
HASAN MINHAJ

I was scared to film 'GLOW' for many reasons. As an actor, as a wrestler. It was just a very...
BETTY GILPIN

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
PATRICK WILSON

The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ...
CONDOLA RASHAD

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government...
ELVIS MITCHELL

What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character...
F. GARY GRAY

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
BAS RUTTEN

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real f...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon cha...
BILL PLYMPTON

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i...
PATRICK MARBER

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
TRACEY EMIN

I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, ei...
ANDY BIERSACK

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based ...
RYAN PHILLIPPE

As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things...
CARMEN EJOGO

I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a ...
J.R. WARD

Do I believe it's possible that some young person, young voting actor, or even older voting memb...
KELSEY GRAMMER

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festiva...
TAKESHI KITANO

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitioni...
TAMSIN EGERTON

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the re...
TOM FELTON

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

Copied!

Euzhan Palcy

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

Euzhan Palcy

Share:

Related

More Euzhan Palcy