Cinema Quotes · Page 288

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

— Ken Burns

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

— Michael Snow

There are no hero-heroine films any more. They are more character-oriented.

— Vatsal Sheth

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

— Ridley Scott

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

— Abbie Cornish

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

— Thomas Langmann

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

— Nadine Labaki

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to…

— Juno Temple

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that…

— Alan Cumming

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't…

— Anton Corbijn

In the phase where my films were doing well, I'd enter a party and would immediately be surrounded by a lot of…

— Arshad Warsi

Listen, most people go to movie theaters with an open mind - not knowing how they're going to react to the film…

— Deon Cole

A lot of amazing films are happening, a lot amazing TV shows are happening, and people are not afraid to pick actors…

— Barun Sobti

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of…

— George Clooney

Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do…

— John Wells

You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than…

— Pete Docter

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a…

— Mike Nichols

From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the…

— Naturi Naughton

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want…

— Sergio Leone

Its... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died…

— Michael Bay

I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them…

— Jody Hill

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that…

— Frederick Wiseman

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never…

— Richard Linklater

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

— Vera Farmiga

I don't make films for everybody; if I did that it would be blandness beyond belief.

— Lynne Ramsay

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I would say the biggest challenge on any film is always time.

— Riley Stearns

I have nothing against commercial cinema, but I don't have the intelligence to project them.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

— Ken Loach

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

— Ryan Phillippe

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

— Gillian Flynn

Maybe my films are not perfect - maybe a machine could do that, but that's not what I'm after.

— Alice Rohrwacher

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

— Esha Gupta

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I have always made films with actors who became superstars.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I'm proud to have associated with a small, yet beautiful film like 'Kaaka Muttai.'

— Babu Antony