Cinema Quotes · Page 254

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

— Alfred Hitchcock

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

— Stanley Donen

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema.

— Tabu

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

— Diego Luna

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

— Jackie Chan

Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios…

— Lily Collins

I've always wanted to be an actor who connects with families because once they come to watch your film in the theatres,…

— Kartik Aaryan

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing…

— Alia Shawkat

In life, all things have come to me as a surprise and I didn't have any plans to do films. So let's…

— Manushi Chhillar

I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in…

— Ira Sachs

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you…

— Louise Fletcher

Audiences are more drawn in to what they can relate to, so it would be stupid not to have great Latino films…

— Richard Cabral

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of…

— Rosamund Pike

The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I…

— Ty Burrell

Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to…

— John Patrick Shanley

On some level, some of the challenges end up being similar, which is when you have a very emotional scene to shoot.…

— Miriam Shor

I think that you're very aware that you're shooting a 3D film for a movie that's beloved to the fan community, and…

— Christine Bieselin Clark

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people,…

— James Cameron

Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're…

— Henry Hopper

I feel that the director's job is special because you're there the whole time while people come and go. You start alone…

— Eva Victor

I don't want to make a perfect film because perfect films are boring and cold.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Having experience in film and television both, I feel both are equally powerful and satisfying for an actor.

— Nikitin Dheer

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

— Mickey Rourke

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

I have always got many offers from television and films.

— Pulkit Samrat

Blackkklansmen' is an important film because it puts a mirror up to the past and present.

— Paul Walter Hauser

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

— Steven Soderbergh

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

— Christopher Guest

I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.

— Matt Bomer

I always wanted to do theatre but never really took it up, as I was more inclined towards dance and films.

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

— Martin Freeman

I want to be convinced with my work and unless that happens I can't make a movie.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

— Jose Padilha

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

— Dustin Hoffman

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film.”

— Deyth Banger

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

— Anne Heche