Cinema Quotes · Page 144

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

— Jason Reitman

I am a very calculative producer. I make films like business.

— Bhushan Kumar

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

— Ira Sachs

My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist.

— Rahul Roy

What attracts me to Hindi films is the monetary benefits connected with it.

— Priyadarshan

I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.

— Ravi Teja

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

— Arthur Cohn

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

— Alan Parker

Like all other branches of the Indian film industry, even in Pollywood now it's no more about the actor; it's about the…

— Sargun Mehta

I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.

— Kam Williams

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I…

— Mira Nair

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic…

— Ang Lee

I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is - having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so…

— Abhay Deol

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' -…

— Doug Liman

I am not from a film family. I don't know much, but I definitely knew that if I want to be a…

— Ileana D'Cruz

I'm a director's actor, and I surrender myself to the vision and the process. I think nothing else matters then.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, that's…

— Arnaud Desplechin

If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not…

— Frank Oz

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war…

— A. J. Liebling

I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me…

— Neal H. Moritz

I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried…

— Emraan Hashmi

What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for…

— Eva Longoria

“Without that discovery of the "moving photo," the world today would not be what it is: the new technology has become, primo,…

— Milan Kundera

I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels…

— Adam Curtis

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

— Krysten Ritter

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

— Sondra Locke

This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

— Stephanie Zacharek

Sometimes on a big feature film it seems to take far, far longer to do things than it should.

— Nick Searcy

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mom wasn't very into films.

— Gemma Arterton

Films need a good direction, strong scripts, and hardworking actors. 'Wazir' has all of these.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites.

— Stella Vine

When you have a good director, everything is taken care of.

— Manisha Koirala

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

— Tony Sirico

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

— M. Night Shyamalan

A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make…

— Ken Loach

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

— John Boyega

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

— Mike Birbiglia

I've always admired how closely someone like C.V. Kumar works with the creative team to promote a film.

— Vishnu Vishal

I had several offers to act in films. But I rejected all of them and decided to plunge into politics.

— Rakhi Sawant

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

— Lena Headey