Cinema Quotes · Page 363

The most important thing you have to do is practice. Watch the film and be self confident, but also be self critical…

— Nelson Agholor

Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad.…

— Chris Pine

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make…

— Kajol

One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well,…

— Hugo Weaving

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do…

— Norman Jewison

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate…

— Mike Leigh

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

— Mark Polish

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would…

— Imtiaz Ali

I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a…

— Jesus Franco

My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had…

— Robert Lepage

I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one -…

— Michael Douglas

You had to knock the doors of the great directors and producers; of course I needed the work and was desperate for…

— Anu Malik

Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found…

— Meera Menon

I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same…

— Joss Whedon

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

— Edward Norton

Since 80% of my career has been devoted to successful commercial cinema, I have always been told that I do not know…

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

I had some early success with my first film and since then it's been a grind. It's clearly a craft that I…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you…

— Noah Hawley

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV,…

— Kelly Reilly

“I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I…

— Tennessee Williams

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

— Guy Ritchie

I don't talk about films even after I sign them because between the signing and the shooting, anything can happen. I am…

— Diljit Dosanjh

I used to once believe that the script is the most important thing, but now I also believe that the kind of…

— Kunal Khemu

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have…

— Garrett Hedlund

My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to Cannes. I then…

— Arfi Lamba

[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar…

— Nicolas Provost

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't…

— Jennifer Lawrence

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time.…

— Megan Griffiths

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's…

— Aaron Eckhart

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

I'd like to get Newt Gingrich into a film. I don't know but I'd just like to see him in a film.…

— George Clooney

After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with…

— Brian Geraghty

You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.

— Ryan Gosling

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story…

— Ron Howard

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

— Doug Liman

Personally, I want to do action films. I even tried it with 'Loafer,' but things did not work out. So, I am…

— Varun Tej