Cinema Quotes · Page 285

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

— Penny Marshall

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

— Rutina Wesley

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart

I emphasize the technical aspects in all my films, not just Hindi.

— Priyadarshan

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

I might sound pompous but I practically refuse at least a film or two a day.

— Arshad Warsi

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

— Kyra Sedgwick

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

— Mahima Chaudhry

Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish…

— R. Madhavan

Some of the actors who came to cinema much later than me have tried their hand at direction. But, I don't intend…

— Vikram

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome…

— Hanan Kattan

I think I feel that way - that filmmaking is a responsibility, not only creatively but also financially in that it's a…

— David Nutter

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no…

— Spike Lee

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the…

— Shekhar Kapur

I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it.…

— Tom Cruise

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have…

— Vittorio De Sica

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's…

— Agnes Varda

If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe…

— Sydney Pollack

I've always been into visual effects. It was something I took keen interest in before films happened. Ironically, I am a part…

— Emraan Hashmi

“For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true…

— Devin C. Griffiths

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher…

— Charlize Theron

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion…

— Guy Pearce

Once you achieve success, you are consumed by the fear of living up to it. Which is why many directors stick to…

— Manivannan

I want to be in everything, but that's because I haven't seen someone who looks like me in everything. I want to…

— Danielle Brooks

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

— Elisha Cuthbert

Movies are not about a person; they're about a relationship. All of them are about a relationship.

— Christopher Miller

I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

— Mike Leigh

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

— Jack Whitehall

In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.

— Gulzar

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

— Harold Prince

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

— Eric Stoltz

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

— Mads Mikkelsen

I know that there is life beyond films. I know the difference between reel and real.

— Mahima Chaudhry

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

— Akshay Kumar

I like scary movies. I like the mystery that leaves you wanting to watch the next one.

— Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

I love singing for films because there is a story to the song; it takes you down a new road.

— Mohit Chauhan

It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.

— Ali

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

— Shahrukh Khan