Cinema Quotes · Page 337

I get to watch stories I wrote brought to life by the most brilliant actors in cinema.

— Chris Claremont

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

— Ben Wheatley

I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.

— Sydney Pollack

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

— Debbie Allen

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

— Melissa Rosenberg

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

— Claire Tomalin

I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.

— Vanessa Redgrave

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

— Robert Kane Pappas

It doesn't matter whether it's television or films or the theater. I just have to believe in what I'm doing. If I…

— Sheryl Lee

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even…

— John David Washington

I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I'm studying in a…

— Bhumi Pednekar

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on…

— Charlie Chaplin

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was…

— Katie Aselton

I think that being able to do a WWE studios film gives you confidence to say that I was able to go…

— Summer Rae

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's…

— Jason Reitman

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

— Clive Owen

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles. I think anyone who makes a…

— Barbara Broccoli

“Khaled Yousef's Hina Maysara a voyeuristic, smash-hit film, produced in 2007, recounts of the story of Cairene slums – such as Imbaba…

— Tarek Osman

An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to…

— Vanessa Redgrave

The core of the film is usually something very emotional and something that feels really real that you can relate to, it's…

— Michael Giacchino

I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope…

— Tinsel Korey

Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't…

— Michael Rooker

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've…

— Brad Pitt

The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's…

— Travis Knight

You finish a film and you think, 'If I could just make the film again I could do a much better job.'

— Rob Minkoff

What I'd like is to act on film. I'd really like to act.

— Ken Berry

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU…

— Amandla Stenberg

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

— Arnon Goldfinger

Foremost is the casting; you need convincing faces. Most of our films suffer from casting.

— Shoojit Sircar

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

— John Waters

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

— Scarlett Johansson

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

— Naga Chaitanya

A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I would want to believe that every film I do turns out to be the turning point of my career.

— Vicky Kaushal

I have been constantly working. It's just that it has not been only Hindi films.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

— Jason Silva

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

— Andrea Arnold

I do not want to waste my time by counting films of other producers as I have better things to perform.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

— William Hartnell

If I had my way, I want to do 15 films in a year, but I have realised I cannot physically do that.

— Fahadh Faasil