Cinema Quotes · Page 156

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

— Jon M. Chu

For some reason, I guess, people wanted me to prove myself in English-language films.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

— Kenneth Branagh

What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?

— Eva Marie Saint

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

— Sai Pallavi

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

— Lenny Kravitz

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

— Christian McKay

When I am making a film, it's very instinctive, it's not preset.

— Mani Ratnam

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place…

— David Brooks

Look at 'Dulhe Raja.' It was a film made very quietly on the sidelines, and suddenly, when the film was released, it…

— Raveena Tandon

I love that I am being offered films but I just couldn't do the 'cotton sari-strong woman' role again. As an artiste,…

— Shweta Menon

There's no certain type of cinema, but there's a certain type of promise every film comes with. The agenda is to keep…

— Ekta Kapoor

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the…

— Richard King

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point…

— Jim McKay

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

I decided to put cinema at the centre of my life when I was 13 and going through the biggest crisis of…

— Celine Sciamma

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia…

— Agnes Varda

We think of Netflix as a great personalization machine. It understands how you love French midcentury cinema and British murder mysteries, so…

— Franklin Foer

The pandemic hastened the dominance of the web as the chief agent of entertainment. Big experience films will of course stay on…

— Tisca Chopra

I think it's important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think…

— Scott Derrickson

I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour…

— Sean Penn

A movie's a movie - you know I'm a massive old film buff - but it's still something to me, music: I…

— Karen Elson

You know, directors are funny people. They live with these movies for a year or more. And when you go in to…

— Henry Mancini

Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound…

— Ridley Scott

The more I learn about life through my films and outside of them, the better I am as an actor.

— Kunal Kapoor

I came into films when there was action. When I retired, it was romantic period.

— Rishi Kapoor

I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

— Leos Carax

I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.

— Rituparna Sengupta

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

— John Frankenheimer

At the end, Punjabi films have worldwide audience and good content will only get our game strong.

— Sargun Mehta

I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.

— Sara Pascoe

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

— Dinah Sheridan

I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

— Ronald Meyer

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

— Anonymous

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.

— Tamannaah

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

— Tom Ford

I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

— Sebastian Lelio

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

— Kim Ji-woon