Cinema Quotes · Page 359

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

— Adam McKay

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

— Kenneth Branagh

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

— Bong Joon-ho

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

— Brad Pitt

I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

— Shannyn Sossamon

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

— M. Night Shyamalan

Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films.

— Paul Rust

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

— Prabhas

I am a little wary of entering another situation where I would just be another director for hire and I've been doing…

— Robert B. Weide

It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective,…

— Jiang Wen

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to…

— Ellen Burstyn

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As much as I love books and the theater, I think the cinema is a uniquely modern medium that we look to…

— Christopher Nolan

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known…

— Jackie DeShannon

I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When…

— Ian Mckellen

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a…

— Manuel Puig

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have…

— Andrew Haigh

I am very critical! I hate watching myself but I know I have to because I'm going to be asked so I…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People—particularly older ones—still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's…

— Eliza Coupe

“Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more…

— Alfred Hitchcock

“A black Carrera came into the driveway and stopped behind the limo. This must be the director. They guy knew cars, alright.…

— Eve Montelibano

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

— Martin Freeman

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

— Charlize Theron

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

— Alden Ehrenreich

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

— Judd Hirsch

Oh, really, I didn't know they made a film about your last date, Mortimer?

— Anonymous

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

— Park Chan-wook

I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

— Marty Feldman

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

— Buster Keaton

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

— Anthony Minghella

I haven't worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.

— Dylan O'Brien

I believe movies are better, the less you know going in.

— Joe Cornish

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

My first film was Ram Gopal Varma's 'Company.' I was paid Rs 3 lakhs for it.

— Vivek Oberoi

When I started out, I didn't know if I was ever going to make a movie.

— Christopher Lloyd