Cinema Quotes · Page 159

My struggle began after my first film, post a success, post a jubilee of so many weeks.

— Mahima Chaudhry

My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.

— Isabella Rossellini

I have realized that there is no point doing a small film.

— Chunky Pandey

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

— Arbaaz Khan

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences.

— Rod Lurie

If I am picture, she is my frame if I am a movie, she is my director and if I am a…

— Rose Hathway

I have worked in Punjabi films and now it's time to rock Bollywood.

— Shehnaaz Gill

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

— Steven Shainberg

I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Subtlety is my favorite thing in cinema. It lets you dream. When everything is on the nail and on show, it leaves…

— Liv Tyler

I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed…

— George Cukor

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more…

— Beau Willimon

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell…

— Roger Ebert

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the…

— Clint Eastwood

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings,…

— Ingmar Bergman

I think that some of the writing, directing, and the content is better than a lot of movies sometimes. Actors, well artists…

— Denise Di Novi

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a…

— Josh Hartnett

I think God gave me a talent to use for the positive and to do an horror movie would be, like, overstepping…

— Elijah Wood

'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't…

— Debbie Reynolds

Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film,…

— Debra Granik

So we can sit with Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and all the other folks and experience what the film is going…

— Pete Docter

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western. But I actually…

— Terry Crews

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of…

— Channing Tatum

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

— Shruti Haasan

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

— Hari Nef

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

— Christine Lahti

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

— Balthazar Getty

I was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn't sure.

— Miranda Otto

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

— Lea Salonga

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

— Virginia Madsen

“...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.”

— Kristen Henderson

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I…

— Ira Sachs

I'm extremely grateful that a lot of my films are presented at festivals.

— Stacy Martin

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

— Frank Miller

I don't think of any movie as big or small, after all what matters is content of the film.

— Rhea Chakraborty

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

— Ariel Pink

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

— Scott Bakula

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

— Dwight Yoakam

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz