Cinema Quotes · Page 341

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.

— Claude Berri

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

— Hong Chau

“Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake”

— Alfred Hitchcock

Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

— Michael Jai White

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

— Brenda Blethyn

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

— John Slattery

I don't want to be part of films that are easily forgotten.

— Diana Penty

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals…

— Donnie Yen

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you…

— Orlando Bloom

I just love films and any time you get to see a film with a good story, no matter how much money…

— Olafur Darri Olafsson

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do…

— Eric Cantona

I've realized I've become a bit reactive to each film I do. After 'The Road,' I was desperate to do something that…

— John Hillcoat

The living experience of film only happens when a film is seen, and only within the spectator, because they project their own…

— Sebastian Lelio

I realised I was a 'star' when my first film Dil Deke Dekho was released after being rejected before. It was a…

— Asha Parekh

Hindi movies will never be liked by the critics, trust me. The main stream Hollywood film will not be liked by the…

— Sajid Khan

When I was in high school, I felt totally alienated from the world, but I loved movies. They were my escape, but…

— Roger Ross Williams

It's easier to greenlight your own films when you're not surrounded by other people aspiring to make films. You have to work…

— Matthew Porterfield

I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt…

— Felicity Jones

You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're…

— Michael Haneke

When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and…

— John Waters

You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a…

— Michel Gondry

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like…

— George Hickenlooper

I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give…

— John Kapelos

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

— Diana Penty

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

— Tom Sturridge

Directors were like schoolteachers. Do this. Do that. Don't do this. Don't do that. I dreaded it.

— Kishore Kumar

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

— Kym Whitley

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

— Ewan McGregor

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

— Tim Reid

Actors do all kinds of roles, but once in a while, we also want to do a meaningful film.

— Rhea Chakraborty

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

— Kirsten Dunst

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

— Famke Janssen

In Hindi films, there is a definite slot for every character and situation.

— Urmila Matondkar

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

— Woody Allen

I can't accept every film that is offered to me. Not all of them interest me.

— Rekha

I have acted in nine regional languages and now I am ready to do a Bangla film.

— Nagma

I'd love to do more Tamil films; unfortunately, I don't get any substantial roles.

— Shweta Menon