Cinema Quotes · Page 345

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

— Austin Butler

I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.

— Harry Anderson

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

— Chris Messina

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

— Emma Kenney

I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of…

— Dave McCary

'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.

— James Wan

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees.

— Kishore Kumar

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers…

— Taapsee Pannu

“But life wasn’t a film. Problems didn’t disappear and “The End” wasn’t emblazoned across a lingering embrace the moment people succumbed to…

— Lucy Parker

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star,…

— Nicolas Roeg

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of…

— Rachel Morrison

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to…

— Eric Stoltz

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or…

— Mila Kunis

After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got…

— Kriti Sanon

“It changed from a seventies movie to an eighties movie. In the seventies, action movies were all full of moral ambiguity.”

— Brian Abrams

One hopes for that type of result but you just never know what factors will work in your favor. I think I…

— Aurora Guerrero

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he…

— Satyajit Ray

It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to…

— George Stevens

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as…

— James Gray

I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it…

— Shane Black

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a…

— Mike Nichols

You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than…

— Pete Docter

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want…

— Sergio Leone

Well, obviously 'Mirzya' didn't do well at the box-office which is fine. It's not a film for everybody.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

A film becomes hit with the equal participation of every actors and crew members.

— Govinda

If at all I make films till I die, I want to make ones that last.

— Sudha Kongara

I'm happy I'm doing films at a slow pace rather than doing anything and everything.

— Ileana D'Cruz

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

— Elvis Mitchell

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

— Adam Rapp

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

— Andre Holland

Sometimes, you can also have a big impact in a film just by doing something unexpected.

— Udo Kier

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

— Ed Wood

I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.

— Nicolas Roeg

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

— Alden Ehrenreich

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

— Nandita Das

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

— Cyril Cusack