Cinema Quotes · Page 350

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

— John Leguizamo

The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.

— Mahesh Bhatt

The styling takes you straight into the world of a specific film.

— Deepika Padukone

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

— Terry Gilliam

The reason I make more films is that I work all the time without taking a break, and I enjoy it.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

— Melissa Leo

It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush…

— David Thewlis

There is a world and life beyond films. My charity work keeps me in touch with that world.

— Raveena Tandon

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films…

— Lisa Langseth

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never…

— Vicky Kaushal

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I think one of the hardest things to do in film or TV is to make something feel real, which is weird…

— Tavi Gevinson

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a…

— Jonah Hill

I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film;…

— Rachel Morrison

I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films…

— Meera Menon

Film is a natural progression for Saban Capital Group with existing interests already in television, media and brands.

— Haim Saban

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.…

— George Hickenlooper

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different…

— Bill Watterson

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen…

— Alex O'Loughlin

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took…

— John Tiffany

With action in Hollywood, a choreographer will be hired to design an amazing fight, with all these cool little narrative bits, such…

— Joey Ansah

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because…

— Hugh Jackman

Certainly with stage, as I'm remembering, you don't get to spend any time at home. With film, you might do three, four…

— Mark Bonnar

Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts…

— Nathaniel Dorsky

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

— Asrani

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

You cant expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

— Mithun Chakraborty

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

— Kristen Stewart

I think working with Amitabh Bachchan in a film is an achievement for me.

— Sudeep

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

— Luke Evans

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

— Pedro Almodovar

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

— Scarlett Johansson

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

— Ang Lee

I come from a culture where you don’t divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can…

— Mads Mikkelsen

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my…

— Carter Burwell

After the success of 'Krishnan Love Story,' I have decided to work only on good films.

— Radhika Pandit

I am an actor who gets into a role only when the director says 'action' and gets out of it with 'cut.'

— Mahesh Manjrekar

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

— Fiona Shaw

I am not adding more films to my kitty just for the sake of money; I choose my script and do it.

— Karthi

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

— Jeetendra