Cinema Quotes · Page 244

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Jean Dujardin

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

— Hyun Bin

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

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

— Richard LaGravenese

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

— Peter Jackson

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

— Frank Miller

I feel for a film to be accepted, women have to take to it. The women bring the rest of the family…

— Neha Dhupia

“Tom Hiddleston is so fucking nice. It used to be in the past you were either nice, or you were good-looking and…

— Guillermo del Toro

Digitization has altered the nature of the film industry. Social media, especially, has become a decisive factor in determining a film's box…

— Mohanlal

As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was…

— Marshall Brickman

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if…

— David Mamet

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a…

— Barbara Broccoli

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this…

— Jackie Chan

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and…

— Teri Hatcher

Some of the most successful, talented actresses of our generation, be it Julianne Moore, or Charlize Theron, or Charlotte Gainsbourg, or Isabella…

— Natalie Dormer

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed…

— Robert Burchfield

First, you have to be intelligent. I have never met a successful director who isn't intelligent. A director who is not intelligent…

— Roger Corman

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white…

— Stan Brakhage

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much…

— Asa Butterfield

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years,…

— Casey Affleck

I had only ever done films that never had this huge fan base. I acted just to act. And so, coming into…

— Danielle Rose Russell

If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money…

— Dave Bautista

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

— Stacy Martin

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

— Ariel Pink

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

— Rhea Chakraborty

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

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Scott Bakula

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

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

— Kristen Henderson

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

— Ira Sachs

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

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Chunky Pandey

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

— Arbaaz Khan

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

— Rose Hathway