Cinema Quotes · Page 267

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

— Tom Wilkinson

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Being on a film set, it's mind-numbing. It's like torture.

— Hugh Grant

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to…

— Ryan Gosling

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

— Aparshakti Khurana

I always make sure my film benefits my producer and earns him a profit.

— Anil Ravipudi

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that…

— Judy Davis

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or…

— Renata Adler

I feel that I would perform really well if there was no camera in front of me. But when there is one,…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film…

— Steve Martin

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for…

— Vince Vaughn

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them…

— Michael Apted

In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a…

— Frank Whaley

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for…

— Mark Webber

I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should…

— Neil Jordan

The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling…

— Joseph M. Kahn

Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time…

— Andre Braugher

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this…

— Henry Selick

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me…

— Quentin Tarantino

My first film I made, "Permanent Vacation," we shot in 1979 for like $12,000, part of which I got a fake car…

— Jim Jarmusch

When you look at other good-bad movies like 'Sharknado' and 'Birdemic,' those movies know that they're B movies, know that they're silly…

— Dave Franco

In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture…

— Baran Odar

I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

— Malin Akerman

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

— Richard Linklater

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

— Mike Myers

My goal is that my films should at least match up to my previous films if not be more.

— Shefali Shah

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

— Stellan Skarsgard

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

— Laura Dern

I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.

— Tony Todd

When you make a film, you will either make money or won't.

— Parineeti Chopra

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

— Elizabeth Olsen

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

— Martin Parr

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show…

— Rick Heinrichs

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

— John Milius

When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.

— Diego Luna

After doing a film like 'Dangal,' people would assume things are easy for me.

— Sanya Malhotra

Being in a Marvel film is the pinnacle of secrecy training.

— Sterling K. Brown

I don't come from a film background. so I am grateful to everyone who loves my work.

— Sidharth Malhotra