Cinema Quotes · Page 232

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

— Carey Mulligan

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

— Conrad Hall

People have been asking me when I'll make films with Dhanush and my father. Honestly, I don't know when.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

— Tyler Perry

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

— Gus Van Sant

I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.

— Laurie Metcalf

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

In terms of films, I don't like to show pain. I'd like to show hope.

— Rajkumar Hirani

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film…

— Priyanka Chopra

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social…

— Pamela Yates

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been…

— Steven Knight

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're…

— Janeane Garofalo

The youth is hungry for good music; I feel responsible and glad that I can be an agent who can mentally, emotionally…

— Sid Sriram

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of…

— Trey Parker

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that…

— Garth Stein

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and…

— Jessica Chastain

I watched war films so that I have an understanding of what has already been done and what I could do in…

— Gurmeet Choudhary

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the…

— Jason Reitman

I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and…

— Steven Spielberg

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on…

— Alan J. Pakula

I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of…

— Damian Pettigrew

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with…

— Adam McKay

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the…

— Addison Timlin

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy, because it sells movies on 'behind the scenes' footage. It's…

— Daniel Craig

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

— Ron Eldard

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going…

— Justin Kirk

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

— Scott Glenn

As a director I like to be very invisible. I don't like to be noticed.

— David Nutter

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

— Sam Mendes

Filmmakers are picking up true incidents from real life and making films, which is good.

— Dharmendra

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

— Victoria Justice

Even making clothes for Hollywood films, you do not get paid silly money. It is hard work and takes time.

— Esme Young

When you're competing against somebody and you don't know that person, you only see what you see on film.

— Darrelle Revis

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke.…

— Anne Archer

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

When I see a great film I do wish I was part of it, that happens.

— Diana Penty

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

— Elia Kazan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

— Michelle Monaghan

I'm a huge film buff. If it wasn't for Martin Scorcese, Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, I wouldn't be here.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya