Cinema Quotes · Page 247

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

— Sonam Kapoor

In Mahesh Manjrekar's films, women find their way into a realistic story in the most convincing way.

— Shruti Haasan

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

— John Hurt

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

— Anthony Anderson

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

— Spike Jonze

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

— Hal Sparks

Seventies cinema - 'Taxi Driver,' 'Deliverance' - that was the best period of American cinema.

— Gaspar Noe

I think an actor should portray all kinds of emotions in films.

— Biju Menon

Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing…

— Louis Nizer

I want to do a gritty, independent film, maybe in Scotland or something. I'll have an outrageous accent, and flowing red hair.

— Emma Corrin

I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the…

— Karen Allen

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were…

— Johnny Depp

Historically, for a stop-motion film, you gathered the crew together, you made the movie, and then everyone ran screaming to the next…

— Travis Knight

I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every…

— D. B. Sweeney

Everybody in the two Telugu states, especially the residents of Vijayawada, love both cinema and politics. And 'NOTA' is a cinema with…

— Vijay Deverakonda

Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific…

— Marjane Satrapi

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but…

— Antoine Predock

And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at…

— Cate Blanchett

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from…

— John Updike

You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't…

— Steven Berkoff

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I…

— Hope Davis

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look…

— Philippe Petit

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is,…

— Alex Cox

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

— Sanam Saeed

I can't see myself being a television director unless it's for a two-hour movie.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

— Jim Coleman

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

— Lisa Jakub

I want in my films to pose questions, not to offer answers.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I think sound is a huge part of my filmmaking process and it's a part of the narrative for me.

— Ti West

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too…

— Chad Stahelski

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I made three films in Greece, and they're made under very specific, very limited conditions.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

— Ray Fearon

“you and I are black and white—a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender”

— john j geddes

I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.

— Anupam Roy

Film school was frustrating for me at first but I met some cool people like Lucia Zucchetti - she was amazing.

— Lynne Ramsay

My dad got into the film industry around the time I was born.

— Athiya Shetty

When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

— Park Chan-wook

Cooking and film are completely different - but I'd rather stay in the kitchen than be in movies.

— Nobu Matsuhisa