Cinema Quotes · Page 168

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

— Stanley Donen

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

— Diego Luna

I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema.

— Tabu

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I don't want to make a perfect film because perfect films are boring and cold.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Recently, I did the Bengali film 'Rang Milanti,' directed by Kaushik Ganguly. I think my role in that is much better than…

— Saswata Chatterjee

My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd…

— Sharon Lawrence

'Whale Rider' was quite an extraordinary shoot. We were in that community on the east coast and so much of what you…

— Rachel House

It's either some sort of a kismet or something that I've been offered a film like 'Zero Dark Thirty,' which I would…

— Greig Fraser

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the…

— Guillermo del Toro

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions…

— Conrad Hall

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going…

— Orlando Bloom

When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start,…

— Mohanlal

Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres.…

— Ryan Reynolds

I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's…

— Tobin Bell

Sometimes it wasn't even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, "God…

— Stephen Kendrick

A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood…

— John Maeda

You go to the edit room and see one scene which has come out fantastically, and you feel the film will set…

— S. S. Rajamouli

I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other…

— Megan Griffiths

One day, I read an extremely vague ad looking for someone interested in working in film. Seeing as I loved watching films,…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

At Pixar, we believe strongly that filmmakers should develop ideas they are passionate about. This may sound like a no-brainer, but in…

— Edwin Catmull

Having experience in film and television both, I feel both are equally powerful and satisfying for an actor.

— Nikitin Dheer

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

— Mickey Rourke

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

I've even done a few student films over the years, because I believe in giving something back.

— Conchata Ferrell

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

— Leos Carax

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

— Ajay Naidu

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

— Stanley Tucci

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

— Shawn Ashmore

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

— Warren Beatty

It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.

— Cary Fukunaga

Personally, I don't claim to be a great director. My films are made for children, not intellectuals.

— Priyadarshan

If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.

— John Waters

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

— Naseeruddin Shah

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

— Riya Sen

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite

— Crispin Glover