Cinema Quotes · Page 215

I think '50s was the golden period. I am a fan of '50s cinema. I wish I was born at that time.

— Amrita Rao

I'm excited and nervous about every film; once I understand the medium fully, I'll relax.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

— George Clooney

Isn't nearly every Hindi film a rehash of some movie or the other?

— Bobby Deol

I would like to do a negative role like Urmila has done in couple of her films.

— Rimi Sen

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

— Jason Reitman

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

— Mohanlal

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

— Winona Ryder

'Satra Ko Shaadi Hai' is a very sweet film. It was the first film that I shot. I play a shy small…

— Harshvardhan Rane

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

— Natalie Portman

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere…

— Wim Wenders

Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have…

— Emmanuel Benbihy

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my…

— Darren Aronofsky

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other…

— Michael Sheen

I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To…

— Jason Statham

People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's…

— Cobie Smulders

I just feel my body clock is different when it comes to making films than other directors. Being on set, and sweating,…

— Takashi Miike

I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over…

— Charles Dance

You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing…

— Jim Jarmusch

Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and…

— Paul Feig

I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral…

— Tilda Swinton

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him…

— James Berardinelli

The really cool thing is all about being able to take your movie around and show it. It puts you in direct…

— Joe Swanberg

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

— Jessica Chastain

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

— Tye Sheridan

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

— Renee O'Connor

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

— Patty Jenkins

A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy.

— Dan Levy

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

— Andrew Dominik

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

— Judd Nelson

I think it is very important that films make people remember what they have forgotten.

— Spike Lee

I was a political science major before I transferred into film school.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I just hope to continue making and finishing films. And then get them seen.

— Ryan Fleck

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

— Dash Mihok

It's funny how much you attach yourself to everyone around you when you film.

— Jared Gilman

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

— Bruno Dumont