Cinema Quotes · Page 109

Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is…

— Alice Eve

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And…

— Thomas Lennon

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

— Abhay Deol

When I entered the industry, I wanted to work with good directors like Mani Ratnam and Gautam Menon; that's why I did…

— Nani

IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.

— Paul Dano

I will never say that I'm quitting television for films.

— Hiten Tejwani

My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It…

— Keith Carradine

Most horror films are made very cynically, and they're usually made by studios for an audience that they know is there, no…

— Ari Aster

Most of my films are set in an upper-middle-class world of well-off people who may have all kinds of emotional problems, but…

— James Ivory

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

— Tyler Perry

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on…

— Scott Glenn

Everybody wants to see a film made on them... But it's not like I will die of hunger if it's not made.

— The Great Khali

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

— Nia Long

Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

— Morgan Spurlock

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

— Anurag Kashyap

I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.

— Charlie Heaton

The biggest films that I've had in the past that had all the money and resources, bombarded us with advertisements.

— Arjun Mathur

Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying…

— Joe Alwyn

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

— Peter Greenaway

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

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot…

— Alex Stapleton

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

— Bill Hader

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

The common misconception is that we create films for ourselves. And I really don't do it for myself. I get stopped in…

— John Hurt

Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

— Barry Jenkins

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little…

— Gary Oldman

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring…

— Park Chan-wook

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 did a film that was similar to that world, which was Brotherly Love, and the audience fell in love with [my…

— Cory Hardrict

That's filming. You pitch up, give your all, and see what the outcome is.

— Wade Eastwood

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Morocco: Looks better in films.

— Marlene Dietrich

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get…

— Brian Lindstrom

I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to…

— Douglas Henshall

People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one.…

— Oliver Stone

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That's what I'm trying to do.

— Ryan Garcia