Cinema Quotes · Page 196

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

— Luv Ranjan

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

— S. S. Rajamouli

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

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

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

Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now…

— Daryl Hannah

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete…

— Elia Suleiman

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

— Jacques Rivette

Raj Khosla's 'Mera Gaon Mera Desh' was my truly memorable performance as a villain during my initial years. After that I did…

— Vinod Khanna

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from…

— Milla Jovovich

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

— Bruce Jackson

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and…

— David Lynch

I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in…

— Lucia Puenzo

I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's…

— Colin Firth

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions…

— Shane Black

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it…

— Keira Knightley

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,'…

— Eliza Coupe

My film with Pawan Kalyan sir, 'Vakeel Saab,' came in theatres and collected humongous figures in the first weekend. It was a…

— Nidhhi Agerwal

It's very exciting to go from a short to the opening night film within a three year period.

— Ryan Fleck

It is important for the film industry to rise above ageism.

— Dia Mirza

If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

— Bae Doona

You never know why a film gets accepted and why it doesn't. I have learnt to just go with the flow.

— Pranitha Subhash

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

— Tamannaah

Good movies are difficult to make, and good trash is even harder to make.

— Udo Kier

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

— Mammootty

I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

— Asa Butterfield

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

I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and…

— Lauren Socha

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.

— Kim Ji-woon

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

— Wole Soyinka

I can never forget my first film - it was instrumental in me becoming an actor.

— Mohanlal

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

— Emma Watson

In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.

— Martin Landau