Cinema Quotes · Page 349

I've done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I've also done some really great things.

— Nikki DeLoach

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

— Woody Allen

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

— Nick Turse

Films are not my bread and butter. I do ads. I've survived through ads.

— Arjun Mathur

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

— Norman Jewison

“Sunset and sunrise are two splendid movies that you can watch for seventy or eight years every day!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.

— Ian Mckellen

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

— Steven Spielberg

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are…

— Paul Haggis

Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved…

— Tommy Kirk

Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and…

— Vidya Balan

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it…

— Naomie Harris

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more…

— Gulzar

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to…

— Peter Greenaway

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the…

— Christian Bale

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals,…

— Josh Hartnett

Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but…

— Ray Metzker

There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a…

— Neill Blomkamp

The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities.…

— Hasan Minhaj

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm…

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach

If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do…

— Woody Allen

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot…

— Joshua Michael Stern

There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you…

— Alan Moore

I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I…

— David Slade

When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

— Stephen Fry

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.

— Lidia Bastianich

PK' is a very unique story. There are no benchmarks in Hindi cinema to give you an idea about 'PK.'

— Rajkumar Hirani

Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

— Vijay Sethupathi

When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University.

— Lee Mack

'Aurangzeb' for me is a right film, as there is action and drama.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I am inspired by the films of Pedro Almodóvar, as they are funny, sad, and extremely weird.

— Volker Bertelmann

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

— Michael Pitt

An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

— Michael Medved

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

— Michael Arndt

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

— Marc Jacobs

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

— Cameron Crowe

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

— David Fincher