My influences are all over the place. Different films have…

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have…

— Jodie Foster

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

— Russell Howard

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

— Agnes Varda

There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

— Radha Ravi

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but…

— Luke Evans

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor…

— Esai Morales

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

— Ewan McGregor

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.…

— Donnie Yen

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.…

— Laura Carmichael

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

— Federico Fellini

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

— Diana Silvers

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

— Jessica Yu

I am not interested in churning out a certain number of films every year. For me, it's about the quality of work. I think…

— Deepika Padukone