Cinema Quotes · Page 261

What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.

— Richard McCabe

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

— Matthew Fox

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

— Martin Bashir

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

— Jean Nouvel

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

— Sergio Leone

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

— Robert Englund

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

— Brent Sexton

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.

— Farah Khan

All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole…

— Robby Benson

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for…

— Aaron Zigman

While I have got to work with someone as experienced as Ajay Devgn sir in my first film, it is exciting to…

— Pranitha Subhash

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers -…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of…

— Robert Eggers

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a…

— Arik Roper

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

— David Mamet

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors,…

— Emmanuelle Beart

I want to be involved in things I can be really proud of. There's a lot of bad films being made and…

— Aisling Loftus

I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of…

— Brandon Lee

When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know,…

— Quentin Tarantino

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the…

— Tom Skerritt

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But…

— Alan Rickman

In Delhi, I became a serious stage actor. Then, luckily, the FTII acting course began, and I studied there, spent some time…

— Rajkummar Rao

Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have…

— Mark Duplass

I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to…

— Simon McBurney

I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

— Kelly Rowland

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

— Catherine Deneuve

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

— Billy Wilder

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

— Steve McQueen

You give a hundred percent of yourself to a film and then move on.

— Zeenat Aman

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

— Julie Harris

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

— Saffron Burrows

I used to watch several films a day when I was a kid. This made me think about taking up acting as…

— Sangeetha Krish

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

— Hugo Weaving

As the death of the middle class of film has happened, it has been re-birthed in television.

— Mark Duplass

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

— Roman Polanski

I would definitely love to do Hindi films but I'll choose films carefully.

— Akhil Akkineni

I enjoy making feature films, but I'd rather be in a good TV series than mediocre movies.

— Tim Matheson

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

— Tom Sturridge

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

— Tom Hooper

I made my debut on big screen, and many thanks to my mentor T. Rajendhar for introducing me to films.

— Mumtaj