Cinema Quotes · Page 263

I belong to the film industry and it's the only industry that has no corruption.

— Akshaye Khanna

When Ron Howard rings you up and says, 'I'd like you to do my film,' you do it.

— Tom Holland

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

— Siddharth Shukla

“[ On his Emmy win ] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.”

— Martin Freeman

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

— Debbie Reynolds

I have shot extensively in Kerala for various films and always loved the experience.

— Atul Kulkarni

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

— Steven Soderbergh

Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.

— Parineeti Chopra

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

— Candice Patton

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to…

— Christopher McQuarrie

Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg…

— Holly Hunter

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in,…

— David Prowse

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you…

— Jacques Rivette

A film is a mirror image of our society. If there's something wrong with the way we make films or the way…

— Kalki Koechlin

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The…

— David Walton

There was a Yugoslav film about partisans that I've done the music for, and then I've promised to score a French film…

— Mikis Theodorakis

Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process.…

— Peter Greenaway

Music is so incredible, the most healing force in the world along with love of course which all things are created and…

— Giuseppe Andrews

There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no…

— Alex Stapleton

In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out…

— Christopher Young

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people…

— John Berger

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in…

— John Hyams

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started…

— Guillermo del Toro

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say…

— Ben Affleck

I may play a baddie, but I make sure I don't sign bad films.

— Mukul Dev

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing…

— John Krokidas

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

— Frank Darabont

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

— Richard Jenkins

I kind of live under a rock, to be honest. I very much stay in my little film world.

— Mischa Barton

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

— Bruce Beresford

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

— Paul Dano

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

— Doug Liman

I'll be looking at film back from my rookie year, I was just out there playing ball, just having fun.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

I'm surprised sometimes at the responsibilities you have as a director.

— Rocky Carroll

I want to do films that I'll feel proud of; they should teach me something.

— Athiya Shetty

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

— Dino Morea

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

— Naga Chaitanya

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

— David Duchovny

Veer Zaara' changed people's outlook towards me. It was my first so-called commercial film.

— Divya Dutta