Cinema Quotes · Page 297

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

— Marion Ross

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

— Howard Shore

My first film, 'Leader,' created a lot of political drama. Its release was pushed back twice.

— Rana Daggubati

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic…

— Peter Hedges

I am a filmmaker and I have no issues with anyone, I am a director and I am just here to tell…

— Aditya Dhar

I am learning aerobics and gymnastics, so I would love to do an action film.

— Disha Patani

When I entered the industry, I was told that I was fit for only television and not films.

— Mimi Chakraborty

There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to…

— John Frankenheimer

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

— Vivek Agnihotri

If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I…

— Abbas Kiarostami

It's the Punjabi film industry that sustained me and my family for eight years. It is because of my work in Punjabi…

— Raza Murad

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot."…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end…

— Jacqueline Bisset

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different.…

— Mayim Bialik

“Cinemas always go way up in my estimation if their bar stocks interesting beers like Texels Skuumkoppe rather than just the big…

— David Kintore

The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to…

— Djimon Hounsou

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much…

— Jason Bateman

I owe 40 per cent of my success to films from the south like 'Himmatwala,' 'Toofan,' 'Mawaali,' 'Maqsad,' Tamil and Telegu films…

— Bappi Lahiri

When it comes to dates, I just like going to the cinema or having a night in. I can't stand fancy restaurant…

— Perrie Edwards

A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's…

— Dante Basco

So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting…

— Lea Thompson

I work almost completely year-round, since I was 18 or 19. It's nine months a year, and then you're out of town,…

— Zooey Deschanel

I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing…

— Danielle Arbid

I never speak about my films. By talking about an issue, we tend to trivialise it.

— Rekha

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

— Phoebe Cates

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

— Sidney Poitier

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

— Adepero Oduye

When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema.

— Andrew Haigh

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

— Vanessa Redgrave

Theatre is an actor's medium while a film is the director's.

— Paresh Rawal

If I had my druthers, I'd do television movies, a Broadway play or maybe a miniseries like 'Columbo.'

— Mike Connors

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

— Badshah

There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.

— Pooja Bhatt

Ryan Murphy's a brilliant director to work with who's very fun and creative.

— Evan Peters

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

— Kerris Dorsey

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

— Matt Reeves

I am in the film industry because I am passionate of films.

— Shamita Shetty

I had an interest in film, but I didn't want to go to Hollywood and make movies.

— Adam Page