Cinema Quotes · Page 532

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but…

— Aamir Khan

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the…

— Salma Hayek

I tell directors, 'I can't promise you a hit, but I can promise you the movie is going to be yours.' When…

— Jason Blum

I don't consider myself an image-driven actor. I believe audiences come to watch my films because they are entertaining and not because…

— Nani

If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying,…

— Jaco Van Dormael

I strongly believe in fairytales, they help me face the tragedies of life. Making films is an answer to the world you…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I do think people who have really inspired me in cinema have been fearless and uncompromising auteurs, people whose vision I like…

— RaMell Ross

In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three…

— Phyllida Lloyd

The film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky - his films are hard to watch - they're so dense and rich - but they're probably the…

— Noel Fielding

The first thing you do as a producer is you try to understand the director's vision in as deeply a way as…

— Suzanne Todd

I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but…

— Aaron Paul

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and…

— Ben Affleck

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will…

— Trevor Rabin

Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with…

— Donal Logue

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I…

— Pedro Almodovar

In Hindi film industry, the maximum one can do is try and make a film like 'Badhaai Ho' or 'Andhadhun,' but if…

— Priyadarshan

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about…

— Jay Roach

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

The day Bengali cinema lost touch with literature and started aping the south, the middle class audience stopped going to the cinema…

— Saswata Chatterjee

Winning a State film award for 'Nandanam' had me sit up and realise that cinema was my bread and butter and that…

— Navya Nair

I have apparently become a sequel queen because of films 'Raaz: Reboot,' 'Guest-Iin-London,' 'Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se' and 'Housefull 4.'

— Kriti Kharbanda

I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor…

— Cate Blanchett

As you build your career, you know where you want to go. I'm definitely moving towards films. That's definitely a goal. I'm…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for…

— Angelina Jolie

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Most filmmakers looked at it as a medium to palm off sub-standard stuff. I don't look at it like that. Your TV…

— Pooja Bhatt

My earliest memory of actually definitely wanting to be a filmmaker was when I got thrown out of class when I was…

— Gareth Edwards

I had taken a three-and-a-half year break from films because I lost my wife Rina and had to take care of my…

— Rahul Dev

I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.

— Elena Anaya

I would like to say to as many people as possible that please go and see the film 'Jaana,' because we all…

— Zeenat Aman

This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to…

— Aparna Sen

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my…

— Julia Roberts

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the…

— Tatum O'Neal

As a film actor, I connected to the people on the good and positive things. But, as a politician I feel the…

— Jaya Prada

Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that…

— Eric Fellner

I think I have a responsibility as a film-maker to bring not only controversial subject matter to the screen but also to…

— Lexi Alexander

When you decide to make a film, it's imperative that it's a story you just have to tell...no matter what. If so,…

— Dori Berinstein

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the…

— Janusz Kaminski

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of…

— Lee Grant