Cinema Quotes · Page 454

I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.

— Chunky Pandey

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has…

— Susan Sarandon

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

— Clive Owen

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's…

— Jason Reitman

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was…

— Charles Ferguson

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has…

— Dustin Hoffman

I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure,…

— Arjun Kapoor

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films…

— Ryan Gosling

My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au…

— Philippe Claudel

I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking.…

— Lourdes Portillo

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

— Ed Westwick

Sometimes I watch films that I can't believe got made. Especially because I read scripts that are truly incredible, that will never…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute…

— Nicholas Ozeki

Since I started as an actress in the film industry, I realised the power of visuals and how that can fuel the…

— Pooja Bhatt

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like…

— George Hickenlooper

I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give…

— John Kapelos

If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee,…

— Rie Rasmussen

I would definitely love to do more Tamil films. I feel more connected to the people here. In fact, I call it…

— Asin

In 2016, I worked on a film called 'Love Sonia,' which was based on human trafficking. While researching on it, I came…

— Richa Chadha

Besides having lived and worked in Maharashtra for several years, working in a Marathi film was quite a challenge.

— Sharmila Tagore

I think, in big-budget movies where everything seems so poured over and restricted and the studio wants to examine every frame to…

— Shane Black

There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't.…

— Vittorio De Sica

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about…

— Edward Zwick

I won't take the credit of being a good actor but I do feel that there are good directors who are boldly…

— Shefali Shah

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

— D. B. Sweeney

I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for…

— Arijit Singh

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I didn't study music and I didn't go to music school, but my education came with two films: 'Woodstock' and 'The Last…

— Jack Savoretti

I made adult films for over 12 years. Apart from the directing aspect, I did all of it - the filming, the…

— DJ Yella

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even…

— John David Washington

It doesn't matter whether it's television or films or the theater. I just have to believe in what I'm doing. If I…

— Sheryl Lee

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of…

— George Lucas

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was…

— Katie Aselton

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on…

— Charlie Chaplin

I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I'm studying in a…

— Bhumi Pednekar

I think that being able to do a WWE studios film gives you confidence to say that I was able to go…

— Summer Rae

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible…

— Joseph Gatt

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing…

— Beth Henley

I think I'd like to play more happy roles because I haven't done too many of those. I think I'd like to…

— Megan Charpentier

Ultimately, if you act in mainstream movies, more people will come and watch your indie movies. That's how you reach the audience.

— Shweta Tripathi