Cinema Quotes · Page 277

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

— Clint Eastwood

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

— Marti Noxon

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...

— Mick LaSalle

I'm here to be an actor who wants to be remembered for her roles and her films rather than her looks.

— Alia Bhatt

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

— Ira Sachs

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

— Greg Sestero

It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature.

— Aimee Garcia

Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

Smaller films that have a great run at the festivals usually result in the audience promoting the film on social media and…

— Vetrimaaran

Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a…

— Steve Stoute

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give…

— Sandra Bullock

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting…

— Khaled Hosseini

There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful…

— Miranda Otto

Really fantastic film, 'Munich'. So yeah, if I would say, what's the most underappreciated film, I think 'Munich' would be the one.

— Janusz Kaminski

What's great about horror is that horror stays with you after you leave the theater. You can say every great film stays…

— Nia DaCosta

I'm really lucky in that I have gotten to be a part of such wonderful films where the roles and the films…

— Hilary Swank

It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to…

— Ellen Burstyn

“The Cosmic Director has written His own plays, and assembled the tremendous casts for the pageant of the centuries. From the dark…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who…

— Mark Rydell

No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights…

— Ingmar Bergman

I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony…

— Ed Westwick

We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes…

— Werner Herzog

I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

— Alex Cox

It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I've admired.

— Jim Sarbh

Films that take place in the past reproduce the aesthetics of the past. I question the aesthetics of the past.

— RaMell Ross

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

— Shoojit Sircar

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

— Kimberley Nixon

The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

— Riz Ahmed

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

— Salman Rushdie

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

— Terry Zwigoff

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

— James Gray

If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.

— Ali

I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema.

— Kimberley Nixon

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

— Jean Dujardin

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

— Taika Waititi

When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release.

— Shoojit Sircar

I've met people from across the spectrum and I think film should be the same.

— Adam Pearson

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

— David Hockney