Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this… — Joshua Leonard Copy Share Image
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
I always approach every film I make as if it was going to be the last. So if I'm going to go… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
I prefer being called director Aishwarya Dhanush's husband. She and I share our passion for cinema, but at home, we hardly talk… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
People spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make movies that don't do anything. I mean, no one's talking about 'Pacific Rim'… — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Yeah as the director I consider myself to be the coach, and my actors are my players. So I have to show… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The only distinction I'd make is between film and telly, I guess. "Film," "movies," and "cinema" are all synonyms as far as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
After completing my graduation, I went to Mumbai and started working as an assistant casting director. I worked on films like 'Talaash,'… — Varun Sharma Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
I am not at a level where I will be flooded with offers. Hopefully, things will change after 'Pink.' It is one… — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
My films are as much for the people as they are for me. The reception affects me, but doesn't change me as… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find… — Robert Wise Copy Share Image
It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport. — Ramona S. Diaz Copy Share Image
A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I… — Koel Mallick Copy Share Image
Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.' — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image
I have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't want to choose between commercial and independent cinema. I just want to choose between a good film and a bad… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change… — Juan Antonio Bayona Copy Share Image
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
“A film can be undermined by the person you’re seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm getting more and more used to the fact that being a director and being a woman are two things that everyone… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
