Cinema Quotes · Page 299

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

— Norman Jewison

I get many scripts and films, but I refuse most of them because I have done such roles before.

— Raveena Tandon

As long as you know how to handle yourself, the film industry is probably one of the best places to work in.

— Shriya Saran

My films are always a struggle to make and will remain so.

— Shoojit Sircar

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

— Michelle Williams

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

— Johnny Depp

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

— Joshua Leonard

If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.

— Ti West

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and…

— Josh Hopkins

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic…

— Karina Longworth

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get…

— Yahoo Serious

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

— Lucrecia Martel

I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know…

— Divya Dutta

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That…

— Anne-Marie Duff

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to…

— Robert Bresson

We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion…

— Simon Pegg

If a handful of people look at the making of the film and realize, "Oh, my god!" It was so complicated. It…

— Rob Letterman

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting…

— Holly Hunter

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture…

— Robert Stromberg

Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough…

— Luca Guadagnino

I always want to try to make films feel timeless, because one of my biggest pet peeves is that there's a movie…

— Francis Lawrence

I was labelled a jinx. No one wanted to work with me. I was home for about six to eight months without…

— Priyamani

I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn't really…

— McG

“Theater is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.”

— Michael Nesmith

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

I make sure that I watch all the new films in a theatre.

— Asin

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to…

— Kim Basinger

I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

— Ted Kotcheff

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

— Steven Spielberg

I had started with Bollywood and then I shifted to Bhojpuri films to create my own identity there.

— Ravi Kishan

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

— William Shatner

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

— Nagisa Oshima

T.N. Seetharam is known for solid work in television and film.

— Hamsalekha

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

— Michael Showalter

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

— Neil Patrick Harris

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

— Edwin Catmull

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

— Robert Bresson

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

— Andrei Tarkovsky