Cinema Quotes · Page 202

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

— Elijah Cummings

I grew up understanding cinema from early on and was soon cinema-literate.

— Rana Daggubati

Damnit Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film or television actor. -Larry Zoolander

— Zoolander

In a normal film there would be 25 to 30 main speaking characters.

— Nag Ashwin

I teach for a living, and I make movies when I can. I've never made money from my films.

— Kelly Reichardt

I got busy with films and found it difficult to devote time to theatre.

— Asrani

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

— Jonathan Demme

I have been directing ads and videos for quite some time. And I wanted to direct films.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd…

— Allison Schroeder

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

— Franck Khalfoun

Yes, I do bring something of my own to the plate. But I strongly believe that a film is a director and…

— Mithila Palkar

When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work…

— Pawel Szajda

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not…

— Nick Cave

I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all…

— Kriti Sanon

Films like 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Shrek' are hits because they hit on different levels with different age groups. Striking that…

— Kelly Asbury

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at…

— James Franco

I'm not hoping to see that day but I know that my cinema will reach Filipinos. I know that they will embrace…

— Lav Diaz

I am happy with my family and my colleagues and want to continue making my own kind of cinema. I have never…

— Sunny Deol

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit,…

— Neil Jordan

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry,…

— Brian Cox

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just…

— Alan Hirsch

The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's]…

— Bun B

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg…

— Marg Helgenberger

In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or…

— Roger Ebert

I do get film offers, but if they are dance teacher kind of roles, I don't take them up.

— Shobana

When I turned director, I enjoyed the challenge of making an actor perform to his best.

— Nizhalgal Ravi

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

— Nancy Astor

Yennai Arindhaal' is perhaps the quickest film in my career.

— Gautham Menon

As a producer, I wanted to make medium-budget films, and I did.

— Lara Dutta

I wanted to make an unusual superhero film for quite some time.

— Remo D'Souza

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

— Goldie

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

— Ishaan Khatter

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

— Jai Courtney

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

— Sarah Snook

What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.

— Patrice Leconte

The credit for the success of my films go to the director and the script.

— Shamna Kasim

I enjoy doing commercial movies... the singing, dancing, romancing. I really look up to those movies.

— Mimi Chakraborty

I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.

— Jessica Chastain

I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies.

— David Lowery

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

— Javier Bardem