Cinema Quotes · Page 218

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

— Richard LaGravenese

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

— Ava DuVernay

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

— Michael Rapaport

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

— Peter Jackson

I'm extremely grateful that a lot of my films are presented at festivals.

— Stacy Martin

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

— Frank Miller

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

— Scott Bakula

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in…

— Julie Christie

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're…

— Janeane Garofalo

You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene…

— Dennis Farina

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work…

— Andy Garcia

I don't start a film with the heroine but with the cinema subject. If there is a woman in the story, she…

— Satyajit Ray

If you get a song which really cracks it for you, it is fantastic, as people, more than watching your film, watch…

— Prachi Desai

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The…

— CJ Adams

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better…

— Scott Eastwood

I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by…

— Ranbir Kapoor

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I've worked on some really fun movies with some really creative and fun people and this is the most talented...group I've ever…

— Seth Green

Every time I watch a history of cinema - or a documentary on film - it will show eleven men talking about…

— Kelly Reichardt

Sometimes you feel you're making something really special and when it comes out you might still feel that way but for some…

— Jeff Bridges

The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced,…

— Ol Parker

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

— Dwight Yoakam

I don't think of any movie as big or small, after all what matters is content of the film.

— Rhea Chakraborty

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

— Ariel Pink

A good director will always identify the actor whom he wants to work with.

— Jagapathi Babu

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

— Robbie Coltrane

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

— Lea Salonga

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

— Virginia Madsen

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I…

— Ira Sachs

“...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.”

— Kristen Henderson

I have realized that there is no point doing a small film.

— Chunky Pandey

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences.

— Rod Lurie

If I am picture, she is my frame if I am a movie, she is my director and if I am a…

— Rose Hathway

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

— Arbaaz Khan

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

— Hari Nef