Cinema Quotes · Page 284

“The worst film of a good director is better than the best film of a bad director.”

— Tom Roston

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

— David Lynch

Big-budget movies might have huge marketing budgets, but only some films have the content to stand out.

— Vetrimaaran

If I trust a director, I don't even listen to the script.

— Jagapathi Babu

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

— Emmanuel Lubezki

I have done comedy on stage so when I got the chance to do it in cinema, I was extremely thrilled.

— Atul Kulkarni

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

— Mike Nichols

The audience is open to all kinds of films but the content has to be good.

— Bhushan Kumar

Watching great performances can transport us, and finding a film that really moves you is a galvanising and inspiring thing.

— Louise Linton

It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the…

— Stephen Fry

I used to be a film and music journalist, and wrote for different magazines in the 1990s. I still love music, but…

— Graham Linehan

It might be true that we all like to be entertained, but it's also true that we all like to be equally…

— Tanikella Bharani

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and…

— Julianne Moore

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music…

— Johann Johannsson

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I…

— Adrian Lyne

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or…

— Judy Greer

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and…

— Quentin Tarantino

When we first made this whole idea this was going to be calling card film [Moon] and it was going to give…

— Duncan Jones

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a…

— Daniel Pennac

I am extremely proud that our cinema is being recognised in the West. I want Indian cinema to get its dignity, not…

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and…

— Darren Aronofsky

I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He…

— Miles Teller

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control…

— John C. Reilly

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw…

— John Carpenter

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

— Irrfan Khan

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

— Cameron Diaz

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

— Roger Corman

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

— Michael Haneke

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

— Owen King

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

— Rod Lurie

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

— Christopher McQuarrie

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

— Faye Dunaway

Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film.

— Anonymous

We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.

— Keren Woodward

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

— Leigh Whannell

People are fed up of formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.

— Rishi Kapoor

The film 'Richard's Things' was my first time in front of a camera. It was scary but great fun.

— Amanda Redman

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

— David Fincher