Cinema Quotes · Page 39

I'm not a great film-goer, and I never have been.

— Steven Knight

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

— David Lynch

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,…

— Michael Jackson

I so hate the term Bollywood. I know it's become synonymous with the industry but really we are 'Indian cinema.'

— Javed Jaffrey

Audiences remember you because of your work, so I believe in working hard through my films.

— Prabhas

What's great about horror is that horror stays with you after you leave the theater. You can say every great film stays…

— Nia DaCosta

I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a…

— Colin Farrell

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just…

— Parker Posey

Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking…

— Susanna White

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

— Kenya Barris

I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and…

— Keanu Reeves

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film,…

— Christopher Nolan

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

— Martin Scorsese

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

— David Mamet

I'm doing films in the south since they give me ample scope for performance and the industry is also quite organised. The…

— Nikitin Dheer

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

— Famke Janssen

I don't like my movies. I prefer John Ford's movies. I've made some movies that are interesting, or that have some point,…

— Jesus Franco

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are…

— Bruno Dumont

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I…

— Christian Bale

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long…

— Jared Harris

I've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops…

— Gillian Jacobs

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

— Francois Truffaut

It would be interesting to explore an opportunity if Hindi filmmakers think I can fit into any character in a film.

— Priyamani