Cinema Quotes · Page 166

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

— Sonam Kapoor

Today audiences are not just watching films for stars but are rather looking at stories.

— Satish Kaushik

In Mahesh Manjrekar's films, women find their way into a realistic story in the most convincing way.

— Shruti Haasan

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

— Fred Durst

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

— David Cage

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

— Bruno Dumont

I have always believed that the choice of your second film is as important as you first film.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

— Imtiaz Ali

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized…

— Harry Shearer

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and…

— Jim Caviezel

I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get…

— W. C. Fields

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor…

— Anonymous

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected…

— Ken Adam

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be…

— Julie Benz

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the…

— Russell Crowe

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find…

— Jason Statham

I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going…

— Neill Blomkamp

The genre of '80s action movies, I think, changed really when The Matrix came out and Keanu Reeves was able to perform…

— Scott Adkins

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious…

— Walter Benjamin

I mean, as you start to scratch the surface - and that's what I think the intent of these films are. Here's…

— Chris Henchy

Actors always direct themselves. A good actor shows up onset ready, especially in television, and you've done your homework and you know…

— Noah Emmerich

I do not proactively approach Hollywood, but also I do not always turn down offers. But since I'm living as a movie…

— Takashi Miike

In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films:…

— David Heyman

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to…

— Campbell Scott

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

— Baran Odar

I have completed 21 years of composing music in Indian films.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

— Bill Pullman

As a film, 'Lie' is a class apart. It's going to be unlike anything we've seen in Telugu cinema.

— Nithiin

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

— Ethel Merman

“But mostly it's about pacing yourself when you do these movies.”

— Robert Englund

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

— Eddie Redmayne

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

— Chuck Norris

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

— Celine Sciamma

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

— Jon Watts

The goal is to make the music really a part of the skin of the film, and not be detached.

— Alexandre Desplat

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

— Molly Ringwald

I want to be a part of films that will be watched even after twenty years.

— Bhumi Pednekar

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to…

— Kevin Macdonald

I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

— Priyanka Chopra