Cinema Quotes · Page 291

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

— Casper Van Dien

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

— Josh Fox

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

— Cliff Robertson

The way cinema has grown I think, doesn't matter if its Hindi or South. People watch all languages.

— Sonu Sood

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.

— Saqib Saleem

I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We need to develop artists who are not just scoring films. I'm hoping 'Gully Boy' can help with that.

— Zoya Akhtar

Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

— Ali Fazal

Good films will happen only if there are people to produce good films and there are people to encourage the endeavour.

— Mohanlal

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted…

— Arjun Rampal

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very…

— Robert Greenwald

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated…

— Agnes Varda

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what…

— Steven Sebring

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.…

— Syd Field

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

— Robert Doisneau

“Martin Scorcese, the film director, was once asked the secret to a good scene. “Put three people in a room,” he said.”

— Charles Euchner

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to…

— John Logan

If you start doing a television or a film job and you suddenly think it's a mistake - the director's horrible or…

— Lesley Sharp

My parents have let me do whatever I am interested in. Initially, they were apprehensive, but when they realised that filmmaking was…

— Karthik Subbaraj

Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but…

— Ray Metzker

There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a…

— Neill Blomkamp

The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities.…

— Hasan Minhaj

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm…

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot…

— Joshua Michael Stern

I feel scenes of sexual intimacy are ruined if the director is embarrassed.

— Aparna Sen

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

— Pratyusha Banerjee

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

— Joseph Kosinski

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

— Edgar Ramirez

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

— Jeffrey Jones

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

— David Strathairn

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

— Daisy Shah

I have not done films that need me to be a superstar. I have done more off-beat cinema.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

What is a good script without a good director or a good director without a good actor?

— Lisa Haydon

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

— Ron Perlman

Apart from music, T-Series is also producing a couple of films. We'll never be a film factory though.

— Bhushan Kumar

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

— Mani Ratnam

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

“To proceed, I imagine life as a film being screened by an incompetent projectionist.”

— Matthew Belmonte