Cinema Quotes · Page 147

I had a great time doing Bollywood and Telugu films, and it's been an interesting journey.

— Tabu

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

— Viggo Mortensen

Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.

— Bennett Miller

“The art of the cinema,’ Truffaut allegedly said, ‘is to point the camera at a beautiful woman.”

— Salman Rushdie

I've always said that the more ethnic you become, the more international your film becomes.

— Vetrimaaran

I'd like do a film which I can carry entirely on my own.

— Neena Gupta

The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.

— Ol Parker

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must…

— Kim Ji-woon

Film was very expensive, so you couldn't waste a single frame. This meant spending time with the subject, getting to know them…

— Karan Kapoor

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

— David Cage

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh…

— Theodore Bikel

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is…

— Amruta Khanvilkar

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate…

— Simon Pegg

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was…

— Anthony Minghella

I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film.…

— Freddie Highmore

Nobody's ever challenged me and tapped into what I can do. I ain't played a villain which I believe I can do…

— Martin Lawrence

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies.…

— Cecile de France

A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with…

— Alexander Payne

I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain…

— Yvonne Rainer

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager…

— Amitabh Bachchan

I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get…

— Mikaela Hoover

Wanted' released right after my marriage and it turned out to be a blockbuster, but I had already made a decision to…

— Ayesha Takia

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

— Andy Serkis

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

— Karthi

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on…

— Colin Farrell

I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.

— Akshay Kumar

Suneel Darshan is the kind of director I'd want to work with repeatedly.

— Bobby Deol

I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

— Bruce Bennett

I'm trying to break a lot of prejudices with my every film.

— Taapsee Pannu

Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.

— Gaspar Noe

Many of my colleagues and I do films, which push the envelope and try to bring some change.

— Ranvir Shorey

In a lot of ways, I think television is better for women than film.

— Nazanin Boniadi

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

— Katherine Dunn

In my career, I have made the right choices, but somehow, as an actress, I wish I had done more films.

— Deepti Naval

I never thought a film about a sperm donor could work with audiences in India, but it did.

— Shoojit Sircar

I think because of social media and YouTube things are changing. Today people have a judgement about films.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

— Chris Daughtry

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

— John Hodgman