Cinema Quotes · Page 271

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

— Shiri Appleby

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

— Adam West

As an actor, I can't be constantly worrying about the commercial returns of my film.

— Anushka Shetty

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

— Joan Chen

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I was as devoted to the film industry, as I am to the Bharatiya Janta Party.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

— Maria Thayer

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

— Shu Qi

Film has a magical process to it. The dailies, and the thing you see on your little film monitor, that's not the…

— Ryan Fleck

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a…

— Mano Khalil

Every industry has got its distinct identity. The Malayalam film industry is right up there with some of the greatest content, artistes…

— Arbaaz Khan

We cannot compare Marathi cinema industry with other regional industries or even Hindi industry. It will be unfair for us. Every industry…

— Atul Kulkarni

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because…

— Vin Diesel

Everyone in my family has a weird leg in the industry. My grandpa was a director and my grandma was a third…

— Phoebe Dynevor

Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or…

— Javed Akhtar

I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have…

— Peter Jackson

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art,…

— Bill Paxton

For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of…

— Duncan Jones

I have a music-video background, and I feel like the responsibility of a music-video director is to do something that hasn't been…

— Ruben Fleischer

I start everything from the same place, with that sense of responsibility. On a bigger movie, you have to be aware that…

— Kristen Stewart

How I'm portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else.…

— Alex Honnold

My pay packet is reasonable. But I prefer doing films where I have a meaty role. The set-up of the film and…

— Priyamani

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would…

— Imtiaz Ali

I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one -…

— Michael Douglas

If you do one big commercial film and it's a hit, everybody takes you for that particular kind of a role.

— Neena Gupta

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

— Jeanine Basinger

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

— Ira Sachs

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

— Jacob Tremblay

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

— Samantha Bee

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

— Kevin Hart

Salaam Bombay' and 'Monsoon Wedding' are the two Mira Nair films I go back to.

— Rasika Dugal

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

— Manoj Bajpayee

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

— Takeshi Kitano

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

— Ram Gopal Varma

When Tom Hanks is in a film, you know it's going to be good.

— Tom Glynn-Carney

We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

— Shawn Wayans

I always liked films that are light and high on entertainment.

— Kashmira Shah

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

— Mia Wasikowska

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

— Michael Pena