Cinema Quotes · Page 313

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

— John Woo

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson

I don't choose my directors, but I choose my scripts wisely.

— Vijay Sethupathi

My thing has always been to watch film and see what I'm doing wrong.

— Lauri Markkanen

Every time I went to the cinema or to the theater, I would come out with this overwhelming sense of joy.

— Harris Dickinson

Kalki Koechlin and I were suppose to do a film together but it got shelved due to lack of funds.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Making a film requires an alignment of God! On top of that if you are doing a period film, it is even…

— Pooja Batra

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor,…

— Tommy Wiseau

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that…

— Rajkumar Hirani

'Aashiqui' became a cult hit film. It was my first film which gave me not just recognition but stardom too, so I…

— Rahul Roy

I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing…

— David Slade

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot…

— Lee Hazlewood

The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality…

— Lionel Wigram

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get…

— Steve James

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't…

— Greg Kinnear

We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder.…

— Lee Unkrich

The people I met for the first time in the period when I was making films like 'Tum Bin,' 'Ra.One,' 'Dus,' 'Cash'…

— Anubhav Sinha

In the case of 'Fantastic Woman,' I wanted to make it a more complex animal than just a 'cause' film. Even though…

— Sebastian Lelio

At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of…

— Nargis Fakhri

I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make…

— Rory Kennedy

Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm a big fan of directors like Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar Wai, Chen Kaige, Stanley Tong, Suhar, Ringo Lam, there are so…

— Mallika Sherawat

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

— John Lee Hancock

I was one of the first few film people to ever do television.

— Poonam Dhillon

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

— Ryan Reynolds

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

— Ed Wood

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

— George Lucas

You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.

— Yuen Woo-ping

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

— Max von Sydow

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

— David Puttnam

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

— Christopher Nolan

Big or small, if you can do justice to the role then people will always take your character back from the film.

— Prachi Desai

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

— Jodie Foster

I have a nationally distributed film whose pivotal scene is the ultrasound-guided abortion.

— Abby Johnson

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.

— Louie Psihoyos

I have acted in several theatre groups in Bengaluru and my passion has always been films.

— Shraddha Srinath

Madhuri should do more films. She should do a film with me where she is romancing me.

— Jackie Shroff