Cinema Quotes · Page 173

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

— DeVon Franklin

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

— Conrad Hall

I was not active in films for three years owing to some treatments I was undergoing.

— Salim Kumar

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.

— Eli Roth

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

— Rajkumar Hirani

America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema.

— Tom Hiddleston

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

— Maggie Smith

I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

— Judge Reinhold

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

— Natalia Tena

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it…

— Regina King

There's a reason why you attach the luck factor to your hard work. You work hard in every film, but there's always…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly…

— Sam Mendes

For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really…

— Terrell Suggs

I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business.…

— Ronnie Apteker

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

— Ali Suliman

This was only Taika Watiti fourth film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but I think he brings a very original way of looking…

— Sam Neill

When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors…

— Cary Fukunaga

I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I mean, if you are director like Lars Von Trier who is able to get actors on a table like Lauren Bacall,…

— Udo Kier

We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an…

— Dean Devlin

Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen…

— Rajkumar Hirani

There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in…

— Peter Bradshaw

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the…

— Frank Capra

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

— Chanel Iman

As an actor with a star status, I can't restrict myself to one type of films and roles.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.

— William Friedkin

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

— Anonymous

I think, as a filmmaker, you're always responsible for your film.

— David Slade

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

— Terence Stamp

I believe that even if you do 50 films, you will be remembered for the best five.

— Rakshit Shetty

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

— Kirsten Dunst

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

— Wang Jianlin

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

— Jeanne Moreau

I am bound by a contract to not accept other films until 'Mohenjo Daro's release.

— Pooja Hegde

I believe you need films like that - feel-good, breezy films that families can watch.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

— Louise Brooks

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn't.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja