Cinema Quotes · Page 233

My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.

— Claire Denis

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

— Charlie Cox

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

— John Cassavetes

I have done several films, but I've mostly done TV, and 99% of the work I've done has been in Japan.

— Julie Dreyfus

Soundarya's kind of direction is animation. She's not into feature films, whereas I am.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

— Elvis Mitchell

I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I…

— Julian Dennison

My films, sometimes, have my own reflections of life. They have life lessons I've had that I put across in a humorous…

— Shoojit Sircar

At the end of the day, my bread and butter comes from films, so I have to work in films that may…

— Paresh Rawal

Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what…

— David Lynch

The Hindi film that I recommend is 'Ijaazat.' It is my most favourite film; it is a poetry in itself, and Gulzar…

— Mithila Palkar

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch,…

— Jonah Hill

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or…

— Wong Kar-wai

There will always be big companies making big movies. But making film and distribution is changing in front of our eyes. I'm…

— Clint Howard

That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't…

— Leigh Whannell

I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use…

— Woody Allen

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.'…

— Bill Paxton

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good…

— Howard Shore

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that…

— Gordon Willis

Where is the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie? I don't understand it, why is it taking so long for this? This woman clearly…

— Jessica Chastain

“When we leave the realm of cinema, it is obvious that the dynamics of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy---which has historically represented black…

— Bell Hooks

I am always in self-doubt... every moment of my filmmaking. I am supremely confident when the story is being written and everything…

— S. S. Rajamouli

If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.

— Keira Knightley

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

— Stanley Kubrick

“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”

— T.F. Hodge

Life is a movie,im a super star God is my director money can't drive me money is my conductor

— SED

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

— Nicholas Meyer

“Often, it's not so much the movie but the movie experience that really matters.”

— Hrishikesh Agnihotri

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

— Satyajit Ray

When you're a comic doing a special, it's like you're directing your first movie.

— Tom Segura

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

— Bryan Singer

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to…

— Matthew Fox

I don't want to do just anything on screen and get frustrated watching myself in a film.

— Bobby Deol

I look at cinema from an entertainment point of view. I wouldn't want to come out feeling giddy or depressed.

— Nandita Mahtani

Game' and 'Faltu' belong to different genres and will have different audiences. I wish that both films work.

— Jackky Bhagnani

I do all my films happily, and I enjoy every moment of it.

— Mohanlal

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

— Edward Norton

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

— Mario Van Peebles