Cinema Quotes · Page 184

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

— Jeremy Piven

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

— David Lynch

I enjoy watching regional cinema; they have always been my favorite.

— Himani Shivpuri

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

— Norman Lear

I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.

— Billy Eichner

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

— Brad Pitt

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

— Alan Rudolph

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

— Howard Shore

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one…

— Ozwald Boateng

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room -…

— Julia Stiles

'Main Aur Mr. Riight' is about a girl who is looking for perfection. She strives for perfection herself and is searching for…

— Shenaz Treasury

Scriptwriting [for film] is the toughest part of the whole racket . . . the least understood and the least noticed.

— Frank Capra

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it…

— Randeep Hooda

I have only seen movies of my generation - 'Mother India,' 'Shree 420,' 'Awaara.' Those days, we had actors such as Dilip…

— Milkha Singh

I have been brought up watching world cinema, and I have travelled a lot, so I am very comfortable with my body.

— Radhika Apte

I like to watch films with my wife and friends. That's how films should be watched. Only then can you enjoy the…

— Riteish Deshmukh

My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au…

— Philippe Claudel

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the UK. I'd been in the film Breaking and Entering - Anthony…

— Ed Westwick

I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute…

— Nicholas Ozeki

Sometimes I watch films that I can't believe got made. Especially because I read scripts that are truly incredible, that will never…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Since I started as an actress in the film industry, I realised the power of visuals and how that can fuel the…

— Pooja Bhatt

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like…

— George Hickenlooper

I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give…

— John Kapelos

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a…

— Johnny Depp

All films are a challenge and they are a harder challenge when dealing with characters of color.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

— John Heard

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

— Patricia Highsmith

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

— John Milius

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

— Dominic Cooper

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

— Saul Bass

There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

— Caitriona Balfe

I have done some 104 films across languages, most of which had action.

— Rahul Dev

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

— Andrea Arnold

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

— Reese Witherspoon

There have been quite a few films where we comediennes have come together, and all of them have been hits.

— Kovai Sarala

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

— Eddie Murphy

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

— Asia Argento

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

— Mira Nair

Music will always be the heart and soul of a film, whether the film is star-driven or content-driven.

— Bhushan Kumar

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

— Minnie Driver