Cinema Quotes · Page 309

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

— Michael Winterbottom

Actors too need directors who can fire their imagination. The fire needs to be stoked.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"

— Carey Mulligan

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

— Stephen Rea

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to…

— Taye Diggs

I just want to work with good directors and good people.

— Charlie Hunnam

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

— Roger Corman

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

— Peter Jackson

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got…

— Adam Beach

Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at…

— Jeremy Bulloch

Film was something I didn't really think about when I was young, because if you looked like me, you weren't a film…

— Eileen Atkins

That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites…

— Clemence Poesy

Television is a big platform for actors, and so many actors have made it to films from there. And for me, too,…

— Fawad Khan

I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved…

— Vijay

You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting…

— George Clooney

I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film…

— Whoopi Goldberg

A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though…

— Randeep Hooda

I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters…

— Oscar Isaac

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film…

— Martin Scorsese

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's…

— Lee Grant

I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay.…

— Stacy Peralta

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it…

— Larry Cohen

My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television…

— Laurence Fishburne

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan…

— Robert Altman

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

— Andy Serkis

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

— Demian Bichir

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

— Juliette Binoche

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

— Willem Dafoe

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

— Marisa Tomei

The Punjabi film industry is fairly new and needs all the support it can get.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

— Catherine Deneuve

A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.

— Dev Anand

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

— Om Puri

The financing of my films has always been international.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

— Don Bluth

I want to work in literature-based movies in Bengal as this is the specialty of the Bengali film industry.

— Tanushree Dutta

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

— Ridley Scott

I do not count how many films or series I am doing in a year.

— Pankaj Tripathi

Being offered the role in the Jackie Chan film was amazing. I got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan.

— Eve Torres

I have made more good films than anyone else in the country.

— Mahesh Bhatt