Cinema Quotes · Page 253

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

— Jon Watts

I want to be a part of films that will be watched even after twenty years.

— Bhumi Pednekar

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

— Molly Ringwald

The goal is to make the music really a part of the skin of the film, and not be detached.

— Alexandre Desplat

I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to…

— Kevin Macdonald

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

— Priyanka Chopra

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was…

— Dan Harmon

The best thing about doing a realistic film is that you have the freedom to deliver your lines as natural as possible…

— Biju Menon

I'm just trying to be aggressive and make plays, but you watch film and you see that you can get off the…

— Jordan Clarkson

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see…

— Beck

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove…

— Robert Redford

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese…

— Alexandre Desplat

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a…

— Grant Heslov

Of course, there are days when you remember that what if I had continued irrespective of hits or flops, maybe I would…

— Rahul Roy

The first movie I was when I was around 16 or 17. It was a hard-core drama, artistic movie. I had never…

— Shira Haas

I think that Tyler Perry's genius really has been to tap into the domestic market. He knows what his audience is based…

— Hilton Als

I started as a short filmmaker and found that one of the toughest challenges was getting your film to be watched. I…

— Karthik Subbaraj

Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a…

— Dane Cook

A lot of people started asking me about this woman director thing, which I never thought about before. And I'd never really…

— Sophia Takal

At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming…

— Michael Imperioli

I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

— Mekhi Phifer

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

— Ram Gopal Varma

As a film, 'Lie' is a class apart. It's going to be unlike anything we've seen in Telugu cinema.

— Nithiin

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

— Bill Pullman

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

— Eddie Redmayne

“But mostly it's about pacing yourself when you do these movies.”

— Robert Englund

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

— Ethel Merman

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

— Chuck Norris

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

— Stanley Tucci

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

— Ajay Naidu

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

— Shawn Ashmore

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

— Warren Beatty

It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.

— Cary Fukunaga

Personally, I don't claim to be a great director. My films are made for children, not intellectuals.

— Priyadarshan

I've even done a few student films over the years, because I believe in giving something back.

— Conchata Ferrell

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

— Leos Carax