Cinema Quotes · Page 287

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

— Geena Davis

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

— John Frankenheimer

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

— Ken Adam

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

— Tony Kushner

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

— Armand Assante

When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

— Paul Wesley

I love movies, but I never expected to be 'in the movies.'

— Stephen Schwartz

I don't know how to make award-winning films; I'm a director happy in making masala films.

— Raghava Lawrence

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other…

— Elle Macpherson

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan…

— Laetitia Casta

I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue…

— Luca Guadagnino

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always…

— Geoffrey Rush

Filming, for me, is a way of approaching, little by little - of getting closer and closer to my subject. And that…

— Rithy Panh

For someone who doesn't have a family associated with the industry, they obviously find it tougher to get cast in a film,…

— Ishaan Khatter

I was just fascinated with the brain and the mind, and I found psychology engaging for writing about people, and that fed…

— Eoin Macken

'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction.

— Jim Sarbh

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and…

— Jeff Daniels

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve.…

— Miranda Richardson

I love action films because I have grown up seeing some of the brilliant movies of the genre like 'Ghatak,' 'Ghayal,' 'Shiva.'…

— Kunal Khemu

One hopes for that type of result but you just never know what factors will work in your favor. I think I…

— Aurora Guerrero

It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to…

— George Stevens

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he…

— Satyajit Ray

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as…

— James Gray

I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it…

— Shane Black

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

— Ritika Singh

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

— Donald Pleasence

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Professionally, I haven't done any film in 2013 as I was studying in NYU.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

— Jackie Chan

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

— Priyanka Chopra

“Film is that much powerful to show any negative fact through a very positive way what blows humans mind.”

— Maria Tusar

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

— Kay Kay Menon

My commitments are for Punjabi films - I want to work for the industry to uplift it.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

— Leland Orser

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

— George A. Romero

I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Who would want to do a bad film? It's just that not all films work in my favour, and I'm fine with…

— Karthi

I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable.

— Rza

I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.

— Allu Arjun

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.

— Nina Jacobson