Cinema Quotes · Page 180

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

— Mammootty

Right at the beginning of my career, I did a couple of short films which were based on a social cause.

— Arjun Mathur

I want to do only such films which will help me grow as an actor.

— Andrea Jeremiah

When you do a film, you always hope that the film will do well but you don't think beyond that.

— Zeenat Aman

I love 'Swamy Ra Ra' movie and I wanted to act in Sudheer Varma's direction after watching that film.

— Naga Chaitanya

Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.

— Luca Guadagnino

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

— Syd Barrett

After 'Maryada Ramanna,' I wanted to make a quick film on a shoestring budget.

— S. S. Rajamouli

Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale's 'Frankenstein' at the local library at the age…

— Sean Baker

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

— Corbin Bernsen

There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic…

— Min-sik Choi

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing…

— Sarah Bolger

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets…

— Michael Pitt

To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want…

— Sam Levinson

As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to…

— Diego Luna

I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking…

— Diane Lane

“Khaled Yousef's Hina Maysara a voyeuristic, smash-hit film, produced in 2007, recounts of the story of Cairene slums – such as Imbaba…

— Tarek Osman

You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a…

— Michel Gondry

I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

When I was in high school, I felt totally alienated from the world, but I loved movies. They were my escape, but…

— Roger Ross Williams

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre?…

— Kevin Spacey

It's easier to greenlight your own films when you're not surrounded by other people aspiring to make films. You have to work…

— Matthew Porterfield

I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt…

— Felicity Jones

You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're…

— Michael Haneke

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

— Susan Sontag

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

— Tommy Lee Jones

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

— Gautham Menon

You don't need sex and controversy when your film has merit.

— Luv Ranjan

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

— Alexandre Desplat

I have succeeded at times and failed at others, but I am here to do good cinema.

— Sushmita Sen

When I was making short films, I didn't see a way to give them a wider reach or earn revenue out of…

— Karthik Subbaraj

I have two mothers - Maa and cinema, so I am grateful to Bollywood for giving me a lot.

— Rajpal Yadav

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

— Ken Loach

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

— Jon Tenney

The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.

— Dulquer Salmaan

We need to make good commercial films that resonate with the whole of India.

— Jackky Bhagnani

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

— Melissa Joan Hart

Many of my friends and colleagues have told me to take up film direction.

— Pratik Gandhi