Cinema Quotes · Page 211

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

— Tamannaah

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

— Kevin Brownlow

The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'

— Dwayne Johnson

If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.

— John Waters

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

— Naseeruddin Shah

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

— Riya Sen

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite

— Crispin Glover

I am busy with other language films apart from Sandalwood.

— Nikita Thukral

The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you…

— Emilia Fox

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the…

— Carter Burwell

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the…

— Jenna Fischer

I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I…

— Tom Lister, Jr

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven…

— Doug Liman

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance…

— John Hurt

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done…

— Karen Black

Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it…

— Denzel Washington

I think I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it gives me the opportunity to look at…

— Tony Krantz

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable…

— Akira Kurosawa

I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I…

— Lucas Hedges

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's…

— William H. Macy

The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is…

— Pete Docter

Stop helping everyone else make their films, and enlist them to help you make yours. This is an exaggeration, but the point…

— Jenni Olson

I informed Malayalam filmmakers that I can do a film for free if the role excites me.

— Vikram

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

— Carson Daly

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I go deep into the script and speak the language of the film, musically.

— Amit Trivedi

Cinema, art and culture should definitely be shared. These things transcend borders.

— Farah Khan

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

— Gary Sinise

I think that most films have too much music in them; it overwhelms an audience.

— Sondra Locke

It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

— Allison Pearson

You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

— Pell James

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

— Bel Powley

I went into 'Bigg Boss' house for two hours to promote my film, and I got scared.

— Chunky Pandey

I wasn't doing any movies because I was not getting the offers.

— Alok Nath

When you sit there doing a film score for three months there's no time to experiment.

— Jon Hopkins

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

— Dario Argento