Cinema Quotes · Page 290

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

— Ursula Andress

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

— Francois Truffaut

People connect with my films because they are honest and simple.

— Sudeep

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

— D. B. Sweeney

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

— James Agate

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

— Karen Allen

I want to do films like 'As Good as it Gets' or 'Analyze This.'

— Nana Patekar

After 'Dor,' viewers showed the confidence that I could play serious roles too and so I was offered roles in films like…

— Ayesha Takia

I'm extremely unhappy with the projection of 'Tum' as a hot film. It's demeaning not just to me but to the producer…

— Manisha Koirala

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has…

— Jason Winer

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or…

— Wim Wenders

“We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture…

— Ed Catmull

I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go…

— Raoul Peck

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do…

— Lee Van Cleef

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

— Robert Bresson

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing…

— Paul Haggis

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely…

— Jimmi Simpson

I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at…

— Woody Allen

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the…

— Andy Serkis

Given that Chiru also comes from a family which is closely associated with the film industry, I know I will get more…

— Meghana Raj

I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a…

— Kim Longinotto

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have…

— Stellan Skarsgard

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and…

— Don Ameche

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

— Mithun Chakraborty

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

— Ajay Devgan

I used to read voraciously while in school and cinema was always a fascination. Law was the safe backup plan.

— Anoop Menon

In Canada, you do smaller movies that maybe nobody sees, but you get to do bigger, better parts.

— Emily Hampshire

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

— Miguel Gomes

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

— Akhil Akkineni

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

— Mike Leigh

To call doing films upgrade from TV wouldn't be right because TV is huge too.

— Kiku Sharda

I do not plan my career or sign films that just come my way.

— Shriya Saran

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

— Sasha Velour

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

— Daniel Radcliffe

That's filming. You pitch up, give your all, and see what the outcome is.

— Wade Eastwood

I always tell people, 'If you say you don't like horror, it just means that you haven't found the right movie.'

— Lauren Ashley Carter

The reason I am in cinema is because of the passion I have for cinema.

— Neha Sharma