Cinema Quotes · Page 268

The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.

— Ray Milland

'Pilla Zamindar' is a fun film. I enjoyed working in it.

— Nani

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

— Vanessa Paradis

I've got to make the movies that I would want to go see.

— Paul Walter Hauser

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

— Martin Scorsese

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.

— Phillip Noyce

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

— Ari Aster

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies,…

— John Frankenheimer

There's no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols…

— Steven Hall

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I…

— Taika Waititi

We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white…

— Theodore Melfi

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in…

— Jean Dujardin

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the…

— Leslye Headland

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience…

— Elisabeth Moss

Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to…

— Rachel Nichols

There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic…

— Nathan Lane

At the end of the process we called a market research company to find out whom the film was for or what…

— Alex Abreu

I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something…

— Wyatt Cenac

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than…

— Daniel Handler

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians.…

— Dennis Hopper

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

— Felicity Jones

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

— Colleen Ballinger

You have to follow your gut and believe in your film. Nothing else matters.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.

— William Forsythe

It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

— Tahar Rahim

“It’s difficult to really like a film that you didn’t like making.”

— Tuesday Weld

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.

— Laszlo Nemes

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

— Ajay Devgan

Warhol wanted to put me in a film, but my mother wouldn't let me.

— Patti D'Arbanville

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

— Alicia Silverstone

A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.

— Nani

If you have a smaller role, but if you work with a great director, they make it unforgettable.

— Udo Kier

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

— Farah Khan

There was a time when I used to enter the film studios in the morning and come out only at night.

— Jeetendra

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

— Farhan Akhtar