Cinema Quotes · Page 357

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

— Robert Rodriguez

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

— Erin Cahill

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

— Satyajit Ray

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

— Patricia Highsmith

I really love Vidya Balan and Priyanka Chopra and want to do films like them.

— Amyra Dastur

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

— Patricia Clarkson

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

— Kevin McDonald

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

— Carroll O'Connor

What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a…

— James Gray

There's something about all the films that I have made in that they don't seem old or dated, and some people mention…

— Paul Morrissey

When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up…

— Lynne Ramsay

'Queen' is an interesting film, and I have always been motivated by roles that help alleviate women empowerment in some form.

— Tamannaah

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later…

— Laura Dern

On a film set, it's important to be good at your work, but it's also important to be a compassionate and understanding…

— Vicky Kaushal

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

— Mel Brooks

When I did my first student film, it was a ten minute film and it cost $U.S.4,000. I worked three jobs to…

— Justin Lin

In 'Stree', I had a great time working with the whole team and Dinu, being the producer and one of the most…

— Rajkummar Rao

It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to…

— Ellen Burstyn

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't…

— Evan Glodell

No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights…

— Ingmar Bergman

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who…

— Mark Rydell

“The Cosmic Director has written His own plays, and assembled the tremendous casts for the pageant of the centuries. From the dark…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony…

— Ed Westwick

I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I have auditioned to get work. I didn't ever land a film without going through that.

— Mallika Sherawat

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

— Tom Hanks

There's much more music now in movies than there used to be. Maybe sometimes there's too much music.

— James Newton Howard

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be…

— Josh Hartnett

You can't do anything about a film's fate at the box office.

— Pooja Hegde

Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with.

— Shekhar Kapur

Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.

— Ron Howard

I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.

— David Lowery

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

— Jean-Louis Trintignant

I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

— Joe Cornish

I like movies, action movies. I definitely would be an actor in Hollywood.

— Tyrann Mathieu

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

— Diana Silvers

I modeled my work after contemporary masters of art house cinema but felt my voice was missing.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Growing up, I did love television and film, and I always wish that I could see more representation.

— Michelle Buteau

I don't think the failure of one film means the end of your career.

— Govinda

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

— Sally Kellerman