Cinema Quotes · Page 217

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.

— Shoojit Sircar

For me the greatest high is the process of making a film.

— Shefali Shah

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

— Alicia Vikander

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

— Martin Scorsese

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

— Billy Wilder

When I walk into a cinema, I want to leave with an experience unrepeatable, unquotable and indescribable.

— Lynne Ramsay

I was looking to be a part of commercial cinema and that was when I signed 'Jodi.'

— Shraddha Srinath

I have done films before and I would love to be a part of one. But the role should give me a…

— Sudha Chandran

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live…

— Kate Bosworth

I find it difficult to direct myself in my films and so I avoid taking on any major roles in my films…

— Dileesh Pothan

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with…

— Clive Owen

There are so many films which are my favorite in 100 years. There are legendary films like 'Bombay,' 'Dil Se,' and 'Guru'…

— Neha Sharma

“Life is a movie, you are the hero, god is the director, your parents are the producers. What will happen will definitely…

— Gayathri

I prefer film. I think it moves slower, it gives you a chance to kind of get a feel for things. Sometimes…

— India Eisley

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

— Hong Chau

Normally my films have a single thread of an emotion, an insight or one single belief, and then I turn the entire…

— Shoojit Sircar

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children.…

— Beatrice Dalle

[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John…

— Costa-Gavras

I made short films, showed them to filmmaker Larry Fessenden who liked them enough to give me some money to make a…

— Ti West

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie…

— Jenova Chen

I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't…

— Joseph M. Kahn

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that…

— David Fincher

My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an…

— Jonathan Jackson

The one difference between comics and, say, cinema or prose, is that you've only got so many pages, and publishers will work…

— Leah Moore

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time

— Joey Lauren Adams

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

— Agnes Varda

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

— Jim Sturgess

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

— Adrian Grenier

When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.

— Edgar Wright

As a director, everyone has their dream and they want to approach their film a certain way.

— Raghava Lawrence

Whenever I have really enjoyed being part of a film, it has worked well for me.

— Fahadh Faasil

Nawazuddin is an inspiration for me. He's is one of the spectacular actors of Indian cinema.

— Sanya Malhotra

It's difficult to do a love scene in Indian cinema. The censors are sitting on top of your head.

— Aparna Sen

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

— Tom Six

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

— Jacques Audiard

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

— James Cameron

With my films released side by side, I'm a bit worried audiences might be tired of seeing me.

— Hyun Bin

I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.

— Jean Dujardin