Cinema Quotes · Page 343

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

— George Pelecanos

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

— Simon Kinberg

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

— Yvette Mimieux

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

— Jeremy Piven

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

— Hansika Motwani

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

— Logan Lerman

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

— Lars von Trier

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

— Franka Potente

'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to…

— James Wan

Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried…

— Quentin Dupieux

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've…

— Kiefer Sutherland

'Barely Lethal' is a non-Disney project, and is with Samuel L. Jackson, Hailee Steinfeld, and Jessica Alba. It is a really, really…

— Dove Cameron

I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went…

— James Gray

I might have had my highs and lows in cinema and television but in theatre the response has always been positive.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to…

— Jodie Foster

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

— Roy Lee

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's…

— Idris Elba

When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do.…

— Martin Short

I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking.…

— Lourdes Portillo

My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au…

— Philippe Claudel

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to…

— Gillian Jacobs

The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut…

— Walter Murch

When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking…

— James Wan

If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is…

— Shankar Mahadevan

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

— John Waters

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

— Alan Alda

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

— Roger Ebert

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

— Terry Southern

Everybody wants to see a film made on them... But it's not like I will die of hunger if it's not made.

— The Great Khali

When I am older, I don't want to look at my films and not be happy about my choices.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.

— Michael Mann

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

— Ajay Naidu

If people can see you in a film and not realize it's you until the very end, that's exciting to me.

— Nolan Gerard Funk

The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.

— Arjun Kapoor

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

— Jonathan Lethem

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

— David Slade

I am not competing with anyone, I just want to focus on good music, content-driven films and do well in life.

— Diljit Dosanjh

Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I don't want to create any particular kind of image; I just want to do different types of films.

— Bobby Deol

I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week.

— Michael Pena