Cinema Quotes · Page 186

To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

— Taylor Sheridan

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

— Elia Kazan

I want to work and work on better films, projects and myself.

— Daisy Shah

I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.

— Lily Collins

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

— Billy Wilder

I am not that kind of a director who makes two films per year.

— Vivek Agnihotri

I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.'

— Rza

The kind of films I do and I've done don't have song and dance sequences.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made…

— John Landis

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for…

— Woody Allen

You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'

— John Schneider

Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work…

— Sven Nykvist

When I was still young and living in Switzerland, I had auditioned in Munich for a German film and was rejected. So…

— Bruno Ganz

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it…

— David Nicholls

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long…

— Duncan Jones

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I…

— Kate Winslet

I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was…

— James Cromwell

My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and…

— Lucas Hedges

I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can.…

— Eddie Redmayne

I never acted in anything I've directed but I have produced a number of films and I have acted in some of…

— Forest Whitaker

There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a…

— Joe Dante

I know that I put a lot into 'Hereditary', and I'm proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film…

— Ari Aster

On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're…

— Michael McKean

“On our way we passed a shop where my mother always ordered flowers. As a child I liked to watch the large…

— André Aciman

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

— Bennett Miller

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

— Scoot McNairy

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

— Nicole Kidman

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

— Robert Conrad

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

— Quentin Tarantino

Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.

— Ol Parker

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

— Dwayne Johnson

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

Be it films or shows or plays, it's the content that matters the most.

— Jim Sarbh

If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I've had to consciously try not to do all television and try to do films.

— Elisabeth Moss

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

— Don Winslow

I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.

— David Lowery

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall