Cinema Quotes · Page 246

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

— Jessica Chastain

A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy.

— Dan Levy

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

— Renee O'Connor

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

— Patty Jenkins

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

— Andrew Dominik

I was a political science major before I transferred into film school.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I have learnt to deal with the box office result. Whatever happened to any film, thankfully, people always appreciated my performance.

— Kartik Aaryan

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a…

— Mira Sorvino

It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have…

— Jake Schreier

Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make…

— Tina Majorino

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a…

— Miguel Gomes

A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so…

— Richard Linklater

The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and…

— Harrison Ford

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

— Sergio Leone

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't…

— Bobby Farrelly

I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts…

— Nilo Cruz

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I…

— Jacqueline Bisset

“I somehow think that it's better to screen inferior literature, which nonetheless contains the seed of something real- which can be developed…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look.…

— Kevin Costner

Shonda and 'Grey's' have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that's something that I hadn't really envisioned for myself,…

— Chandra Wilson

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but…

— Jason Reitman

Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that…

— Alex Gibney

I think it is very important that films make people remember what they have forgotten.

— Spike Lee

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

— Judd Nelson

I just hope to continue making and finishing films. And then get them seen.

— Ryan Fleck

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

— Dash Mihok

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman

It's funny how much you attach yourself to everyone around you when you film.

— Jared Gilman

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

— David Cage

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

— Fred Durst

I have always believed that the choice of your second film is as important as you first film.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

— Imtiaz Ali

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

— Bruno Dumont

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

— Baran Odar

I have completed 21 years of composing music in Indian films.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.

— Fahadh Faasil

I have always believed if the intention is right, it'll be a good film.

— Dulquer Salmaan

Today audiences are not just watching films for stars but are rather looking at stories.

— Satish Kaushik