Cinema Quotes · Page 131

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

— Michael Gambon

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

— Joe Pantoliano

I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

— Dave McCary

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

— Liam Neeson

I went from auditioning for roles to being offered films directly.

— Mrunal Thakur

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

— Sharmila Tagore

I have done my share of looking glamorous on-screen in many films.

— Manisha Koirala

What makes French and Italian films wonderful is they make them for themselves; they are not made with us in mind at…

— Jean Marsh

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

— David Slade

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start…

— Andrea Arnold

Even if you only play a cameo in a film, it becomes a part of you and you get butterflies in your…

— Anoop Menon

If you asked me today if there's a piece that I would do differently - there's nothing. Regret happens with all my…

— Raoul Peck

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

— Javier Bardem

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

— Pedro Almodovar

My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in…

— Gavid Hood

I remember driving around with my parents when I was little and looking out of the window and being very aware that…

— Rankin

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd…

— Shuler Hensley

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did…

— Ray Liotta

There was a time when I feel that I need to take time to know more about the industry, the workings of…

— Katrina Kaif

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel…

— Rian Johnson

I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to…

— DMX

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most.…

— Irvin Kershner

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

— Naga Chaitanya

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

— Ajay Devgan

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

— Ellen Page

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

— Andrzej Wajda

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

— Shruti Haasan

I like to do a lot of research for my films and live my character.

— Amy Jackson

Before saying yes to a TV show, I was busy doing films down South.

— Madalsa Sharma

I plan to produce more films if I come across interesting stories.

— Nazriya Nazim

I want to improve with every film, including being better groomed.

— Radhika Pandit

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

— Charlie Kaufman

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

— Maggie Smith

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

— Celine Sciamma

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

— Penelope Ann Miller

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

— Terri Windling

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

— Andrzej Wajda

I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.

— Chloe Zhao