Cinema Quotes · Page 302

When I was 13, I did my first film, 'Kanda Naal Mudhal,' and the second, 'Azhagiya Asura,' at 16.

— Regina Cassandra

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

— Luc Besson

I want to be associated with films that are content-oriented.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

— Wesley Morris

I don't come from a film background, and I didn't employ any gimmicks or tactics to gain audience appreciation.

— Arjun Mathur

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

— William Friedkin

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

— Ian Mckellen

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

— Andrea Arnold

In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments,…

— George R. R. Martin

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

— Haile Gerima

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good…

— Russell Crowe

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere…

— Anurag Kashyap

'Kanaa' is a rare opportunity; it's about women's cricket, and they've trusted me with this film. I trained for nearly four hours…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is…

— Cliff Curtis

I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my…

— Coco Martin

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in…

— Joshua Malina

“I smile at my friends, but Mer and Rashmi and Josh are distracted, arguing about something that happened over dinner. St. Clair…

— Stephanie Perkins

Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever…

— Spencer Grammer

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen…

— Terry Zwigoff

I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music…

— Noel Wells

If you want a film and they don't want you, sometimes you have to go fight for it. Sometimes that ends up…

— Ryan Reynolds

There's been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. 'The Babadook' is this…

— Ari Aster

It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they…

— Rutger Hauer

When someone asks me to do a score, I look at the picture two or three times. I never watch the rushes…

— Henry Mancini

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

— Kristen Wiig

I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

— Tilda Swinton

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

— Steven Soderbergh

I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.

— Allu Arjun

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

— Jim Rash

When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.

— Varun Dhawan

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

— Vaani Kapoor

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

— Alexander Payne

The biggest thing with watching film is that I see things that I know I can correct.

— Dwayne Haskins

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

— Sidney Lumet

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

— Bruce Willis

I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

— Nile Rodgers

Ankhon Dekhi' is a different film for me because I have always done commercial movies.

— Sanjay Mishra

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

— Rajkumar Hirani

You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.

— Cary Fukunaga