Cinema Quotes · Page 199

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

— Vijay Antony

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

— Charles S. Dutton

I am doing what I want to. It doesn't matter if it is a Karan Johar film or a regional film or…

— Divya Agarwal

I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.

— Bill Pullman

If the need arises, I remix my own tunes from my earlier films.

— Devi Sri Prasad

We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school.

— Matt Duffer

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

— Ivor Novello

She is the film of a book of the story of the smell of her hair.

— Counting Crows

It is mind-blowing to pause and think that a film as forward-facing and potent as 'Do the Right Thing' was released the…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie…

— Gary Shteyngart

Good films and good performances will help you go further in your career. You can't get too far by just choosing leading…

— Parineeti Chopra

Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can't happen, it won't happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.

— Anubhav Sinha

“Child,” said the Director, “it is not a question of how you or I look on marriage but how my Masters look…

— C.S. Lewis

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive…

— Jessie Matthews

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that…

— Natalie Portman

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power…

— Lav Diaz

It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial…

— Dia Mirza

I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing…

— Michael Urie

I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create…

— Sydney Pollack

Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to…

— John Ridley

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic…

— Ava DuVernay

It makes sense that it's so different from film and television, because it's so in-depth. As actors, when we're in film or…

— Zachary Quinto

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything.…

— Olivia Colman

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often…

— Shekhar Kapur

Why is it so difficult to have films seeing the world from women's perspective like 'Thelma and Louise?'

— Son Ye-jin

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

— Sandra Bullock

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

— Felicity Jones

I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.

— Annette Bening

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

— Jeff Bridges

The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.

— Betty White

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

— Lauren Bacall

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

— Gabrielle Union

I've remained somewhat active in the public sphere with various things, including the occasional film.

— Waheeda Rehman

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

— Vera Farmiga

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

— Kenneth Anger

Every film is a comeback, no matter what I did the last time.

— Van Heflin

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

— Spike Jonze

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

— Robin Wright

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

— Rohit Shetty

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

— Adam F. Goldberg