Cinema Quotes · Page 243

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

— Shoojit Sircar

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.

— Mel Brooks

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

— Shirley Knight

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

— Billy Wilder

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

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

— Shefali Shah

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

— Lynne Ramsay

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not…

— Paul Dano

TV's so quick. You make a choice and you do it, and if the director thinks that's wrong then you make another…

— Mathew Horne

I used to make training films for the U.S. government. I was always cast as a madman or a prisoner. I once…

— Michael Emerson

It is time that the female gaze made its presence felt both in cinema and in a world that's been driven by…

— Aparna Sen

It took me little more than two years to complete my film, 'Woody Allen: A Documentary.' I conducted hours of filmed interviews…

— Robert B. Weide

Everyone is always trying to figure out the future of film distribution. I try and not spend too much time worrying about…

— Jillian Mayer

Guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies, a ton of success, I mean, come on bro, I won best picture at 20. I…

— Charlie Sheen

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have…

— Larenz Tate

I personally want to work with great directors and great actors. My thing is about being inspired. You want money to come,…

— Scott Cohen

I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul…

— Debra Paget

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those…

— Steven Shainberg

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them…

— John Sexton

When you're young, you sort of have an idea that this is how it's always gonna be as a filmmaker. And then…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think…

— Misha Collins

There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by…

— J. L. Austin

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

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

— Agnes Varda

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

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

— Joey Lauren Adams

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

— Jim Sturgess

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

— Edgar Wright

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

— Adrian Grenier

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

— Fahadh Faasil

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

— Raghava Lawrence

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 way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Aparna Sen

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

— Sanya Malhotra

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

— James Cameron