Cinema Quotes · Page 326

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

— Kim Ki-duk

I am not interested to do a five-minute role in a film which is not exciting to me.

— Vivek Oberoi

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

— Huma Qureshi

The thing I love the most about low budget films is the creative freedom.

— Leigh Whannell

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

— Maggie Q

When a country's government is involved in something, no filmmaker tries to make a film on it.

— Vivek Agnihotri

Priyadarshan sir is very clear about what he wants, from casting to production. He's a very sorted director.

— Rimi Sen

I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.

— James Ivory

I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal,…

— Neill Blomkamp

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous…

— Zhang Ziyi

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in…

— Emraan Hashmi

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's…

— Rithy Panh

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this…

— Ludivine Sagnier

There was a lot of pressure on me when I signed 'Dilwale,' and though it did not do as well in India,…

— Kriti Sanon

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half…

— Eriq La Salle

I'm drawn more to quality, and so if the quality is in television, I go in that direction. If it's in film,…

— Freddy Rodriguez

Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication.…

— Shane Carruth

I think I should be in a film called 'Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And…

— Noel Fielding

I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten…

— Woody Allen

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even,…

— Karyn Kusama

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film…

— Rebecca Hall

“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it…

— Lisa Wingate

What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that…

— Quentin Tarantino

As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because…

— Jim Jarmusch

In 'Chattam,' the climax was good and that was enough for the film. But the film was not promoted well.

— Jagapathi Babu

I have watched a number of Megastar Chiranjeevi garu's films after becoming an actress.

— Kajal Aggarwal

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

— Kevin Costner

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

— David Shapiro

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job

— Woody Allen

I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.

— Marshall Curry

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

— Mary Harron

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

— Samantha Morton

I want to expose myself to different streams arts - music, cinema and dance - and allow myself to grow.

— Akshara Haasan

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

— Diana Ross

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

— Parker Posey

Even when I was working in 30 films a year I was doing 20 plays a month.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

— Aaron Sorkin

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola

“We each need to have a movie that freaks us the fuck out so we can laugh at ourselves later”

— Anyta Sunday