Cinema Quotes · Page 248

I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

— Martin McDonagh

Directors and actors are people whose career spans are very short.

— Sunny Singh

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do…

— Matthew Macfadyen

“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.

— Megan Griffiths

I have had to give auditions for every film I had done until 'Dedh Ishqiya.'

— Huma Qureshi

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

— Sondra Locke

My favourite hangouts are the Mexican restaurant Crazy Homies and the Electric Cinema, both in Notting Hill.

— Ashley Roberts

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need…

— Arin Paul

We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it's not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something…

— Pedro Almodovar

I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema,…

— Kajal Aggarwal

And if you think this young boy, from Dallas, Texas, is adding to the canon of theater arts, of performing arts, of…

— Jonathan Majors

I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge…

— Woody Allen

I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, 'You should go…

— Agnes Varda

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting.…

— John Hurt

I had an acting career for a little while back in the '90s. I had gotten into that because I was interested…

— Shannon Lee

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis,…

— Charlie Kaufman

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria…

— Stephen Hunter

I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be…

— Cillian Murphy

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made…

— Albert Brooks

I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still…

— Mara Wilson

A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer,…

— Aamir Khan

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

— Kate Winslet

I would love to do films, but the script has to excite me.

— Shaheer Sheikh

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

— Bruce Bennett

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

— Fawad Khan

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,

— Jean-Luc Godard

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

— Alex Winter

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

— Mani Ratnam

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

— Tim Burton

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

— Anonymous

I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

— Mahesh Babu

I'm a big fan of IMAX/3-D films; I love that whole experience.

— Sylvia Day

I pop in highlight films from high school once in a while because those days were special.

— Malcolm Jenkins

“I want a camera shaped like a jail, so I can capture a ghost on film.”

— Jarod Kintz

Women-centric films are being made, and they are doing well.

— Pooja Hegde