Cinema Quotes · Page 327

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

— Danny Boyle

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.

— Benicio Del Toro

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I want to do more films - not just comedies, because I really want to show my range.

— Lil Rel Howery

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

— Julie Harris

I think there are just bad films and good films. Period.

— Vivek Oberoi

In all my films, I have always played a de-glam role, but I really want to play a glamorous role.

— Ishita Dutta

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part…

— Johann Johannsson

If the audience shows that it is interested in films portraying strong women, then the producers will be tempted to make such…

— Shabana Azmi

In case I don't get good movies then I will do television to earn my bread, but then it has to be…

— Sanjay Mishra

If you're on a film set for 48 weeks of the year, you're nowhere near reality. You can't emote like a human being.

— Keith Allen

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear…

— John Kricfalusi

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to…

— J. Lee Thompson

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing…

— Liz W. Garcia

I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to…

— Jack White

I think the fun thing about doing a project under your own name is that literally anything could be a follow up,…

— Frank Iero

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film…

— Scott Adkins

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never…

— Harmony Korine

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films…

— Woody Allen

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together...…

— Keira Knightley

Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much…

— Haile Gerima

Filming is physically and emotionally hard, especially acting in something like this, where we go into the honest feelings of these people.…

— June Squibb

I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At…

— George R. R. Martin

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

— Sergio Leone

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

— Sonu Sood

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

— John Cassavetes

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the…

— Huma Qureshi

I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.

— Nick Love

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

— Noah Baumbach

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

— Al Stewart

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

— Michael Ironside

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

— James Cameron

I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are.

— Sean Baker

It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.

— Elvis Mitchell

Whatever little films I did, I got to work with big names like Aditya Chopra, Mohit Suri and Mahesh Bhatt.

— Shamita Shetty

I believe a lot in destiny, and if destiny has it, then I will be seen in films.

— Hina Khan

A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.

— Haley Joel Osment

I do films that I'd also like to watch as an audience member.

— Varun Dhawan