Cinema Quotes · Page 456

I always wanted to do something different with each film. So I guess that means that I wanted to not repeat myself.…

— Shraddha Kapoor

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times,…

— John Malkovich

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a…

— Eric Balfour

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

— Rebecca Eaton

I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

— Melissa Joan Hart

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as…

— Mike Figgis

I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And…

— Lexi Alexander

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea…

— Antoine Fuqua

I made films with my brothers and my cousins and if any of the films ever come to fruition my career will…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

I know, just from directing television, where you have a huge support system of producers and writers and a script supervisor -…

— Scott Foley

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like…

— Neill Blomkamp

I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that…

— Samuel Barnett

I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain…

— Paul Newman

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry.…

— Matthew Lillard

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or…

— Jodie Foster

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

I grew up watching film shootings as I always accompanied my father during my holidays. So I was not scared about facing…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

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

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

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

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

— Guy Ritchie

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

— Kunal Khemu

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'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

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

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

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

— Megan Griffiths

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

— Chris Pine

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

— Nelson Agholor

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

— Jack Valenti

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

— Kajol

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