Cinema Quotes · Page 314

I am no champion, no great name, just a small actor who loves working for cinema.

— Rishi Kapoor

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

— Jacob Weisberg

Only when a film comes along that I really believe in like this one will I turn to acting.

— Sterling Hayden

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

— Barkhad Abdi

Getting to work with good filmmakers and getting to play good characters in films is so special.

— Prateik Babbar

I made my first foray into acting with a Bengali film 'Gane Bhuban Bhariye Debo.'

— Kumar Sanu

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see…

— Ben Wheatley

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in…

— Marc Webb

Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To…

— Frank Capra

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

— Zosia Mamet

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy…

— Chuck Norris

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything…

— Heath Ledger

There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to…

— John Boyega

For me, the driving force is the audience, and the day that stops, I will stop doing films. The day a part…

— Varun Dhawan

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good…

— Jenny Agutter

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You…

— Jake M. Johnson

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make…

— Jay Roach

What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because…

— Anna Biller

Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the…

— Denis Leary

You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself…

— Bipasha Basu

Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to…

— Edgar Wright

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

— Agnes Varda

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

— Nick Willing

I would love to do a film with Shah Rukh Khan or Salman Khan where I also have a great role.

— Parineeti Chopra

Everybody says they want good films and when one turns up, they go watch item songs.

— Ranvir Shorey

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

— Powers Boothe

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

— Richard Gere

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

— Emilio Estevez

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

— Sharmila Tagore

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

— Christian Metz

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

— Delta Burke

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

— Julia Gillard

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

— Aaliyah

I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

— Eugenio Derbez

There is a certain creative liberty an actor or a director is allowed to take.

— Shefali Shah

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

— Laurence Fishburne