Cinema Quotes · Page 333

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Films are all I know. I wouldn't know what to do with a day off.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

— Robin Williams

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

— George Lucas

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.

— Kiefer Sutherland

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon…

— Charlie Hunnam

I'd like to produce more films in Hindi, provided I get good scripts.

— Rockline Venkatesh

I did not have to struggle to enter into films but my real struggle started after I became part of it.

— Zareen Khan

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different…

— Amyra Dastur

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste…

— Ashley Greene

Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided…

— James Patterson

You cannot be loved always, you cannot expect every film of yours to do a certain way, but I feel proud of…

— Vaani Kapoor

I made a film about a person living with a disability. Those kinds of films are often about the disability, not who…

— Roger Ross Williams

If one makes a short film with reasonable technical finesse, it will cost between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. one lakh. That's a…

— Karthik Subbaraj

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't…

— Laura Dern

“A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with…

— Richard Stanley

Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me.…

— Daniel Craig

Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process…

— Ridley Scott

For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at…

— Catherine Yass

Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience…

— Jessica Chastain

In many ways, 'Lords of Chaos' is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other…

— Jonas Akerlund

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or…

— Jodie Foster

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3,…

— Blair Underwood

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

— Benh Zeitlin

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

— Abhay Deol

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I like to work with directors who write their own stories.

— Udo Kier

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

— Bela Lugosi

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

— Kenneth Oppel

I really like working with different directors. It's really fun.

— Asia Kate Dillon

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

— Eli Roth

I have nothing against the film industry, but my mom asked me to do anything but act.

— Shenaz Treasury

I joined 'Meru' midstream after my co-director Jimmy Chin had already filmed the 2008 and 2011 climbs.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

— Jasper Fforde

If a film offer comes my way, I am ready to consider it.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

— Marion Cotillard

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

— Paolo Sorrentino

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

— Matt Walsh

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

— Antonio Perez