Cinema Quotes · Page 131

If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.

— Zal Batmanglij

I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective.

— Jessica Chastain

Be it web series, short films, reality shows, what drives and keeps me in the groove is my work.

— Suman Ranganathan

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

— Orlando Bloom

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

— Wesley Snipes

I like the idea of having historical films about black women who are just having fun.

— Nia DaCosta

The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face

— Jack Dee

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

— Allison Schroeder

There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don't fly around in capes, but there are…

— Byron Allen

I have to find the story relatable or at least interesting to be a part of it. Then there are times when…

— Mohan Joshi

I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming…

— Taika Waititi

I remember John Waters's 'Pink Flamingos,' that was the film where I realized you could do anything you want - there were…

— Sam Levinson

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?'…

— Orlando Jones

If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does -…

— J. B. Smoove

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and…

— Yvonne Strahovski

The cinema saved me from being a delinquent. I could have been, but I didn't get caught up. I never was going…

— John Singleton

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded…

— James Franco

What's interesting as a director, and even studio executives don't understand this, is that if you're directing a $200 million movie with…

— John Landis

'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and…

— Josh Trank

Over time it just got more and more intense as far as the trust factor. For example, when we started editing the…

— Steven Sebring

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid…

— Billy Wilder

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job…

— Eli Roth

My father and uncles would often tell me that I was going to become a hero because somebody or the other was…

— Sunny Singh

“I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What…

— Søren Kierkegaard

I never ever had any plans of coming into films and never wanted to become an actress.

— Zareen Khan

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

— Rick Baker

I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

— Julie Delpy

It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.

— John Krokidas

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

— David Lynch

It's disappointing when you put in hard work in a film and it doesn't work.

— Neha Sharma

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

— Douglas Sirk

When I did 'Memento,' independent film was where all the really good stuff was.

— Carrie-Anne Moss

The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career.

— Sixto Rodriguez

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

— Hayao Miyazaki

The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.

— Jake Busey

I would even commit seven years to a film for Rajamouli.

— Prabhas

Films take us into an entirely different world, and that's why we must ensure that our long shots do justice.

— Rajiv Menon

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

— Dennis Quaid

I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.

— Bonobo

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

— Paul Scheer