Cinema Quotes · Page 121

I am only in competition with the people who taught me cinema. I am not in competition with anyone in the industry.

— Pooja Bhatt

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how…

— Campbell Scott

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

— Howard Shore

I am always nervous before the release of any film.

— Richa Chadha

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as…

— Trevor Nunn

The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face

— Jack Dee

I don't like to do four films at a time. I like to go with the flow.

— Nikitin Dheer

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

— A. O. Scott

I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than…

— Bruce LaBruce

I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film…

— Whoopi Goldberg

Film is a very specific world in which I don't think you really need to go to film school.

— Dave McCary

Socha Na Tha' was my first film and will remain one of my favourites.

— Ayesha Takia

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with…

— Deepika Padukone

I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.

— Zal Batmanglij

It's not necessary that every film that I direct will have dance in it. I would love to explore different areas.

— Remo D'Souza

I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks.

— Michael Arden

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being…

— Saoirse Ronan

Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make…

— Danny Boyle

If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.

— John Rhys-Davies

I don't say, 'Francis Ford Coppola, what a wonderful Italian-American director.' I judge him based on his film, his craft, his art.…

— Bill Duke

Cinema was my passion and I am sure that if you are talented, nobody can sideline you because you are just a…

— Salim Kumar

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those…

— Parvathy

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good…

— Peter O'Toole

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet…

— Peter Dinklage

Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant ,and so is…

— Kailash Kher

As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex…

— Jason Bateman

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're…

— Israel Horovitz

I have done too many movies but too little variety.

— Paresh Rawal

Cinema is a world of imagination.

— Marjane Satrapi

I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

— Justin Long

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think…

— Misha Collins

I like considering myself as someone in the film business.

— Ranvir Shorey

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or…

— Adi Shankar

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 woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films…

— Casey Wilson

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the…

— Clint Eastwood

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

— Dario Argento

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude.…

— Kiefer Sutherland

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

— Sharmila Tagore