Cinema Quotes · Page 54

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

— Alexander Payne

It's not just about television or films, or acting as a whole. It is all about doing only those things which make…

— Vatsal Sheth

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's…

— Jeremy Bolt

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it…

— Federico Fellini

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were…

— Bruce Beresford

Somebody pointed out to me that there's no horror film on my resume, which is true, but I also don't really go…

— Suzanne Todd

Im obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think thats extremely…

— Sami Gayle

'Grease?' I watch that film over and over.

— Rza

You want your film to be seen by the largest audience and stars help in facilitating that. Star-power does work.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that…

— Stephen King

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

— Roger Ross Williams

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

— Karthik Subbaraj

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school.…

— David Fincher

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background…

— Anne-Marie Duff

We did casting in L.A. and a lot of people came against the advice of their agents. The agents said, "You shouldn't…

— Uwe Boll

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here…

— Manny Farber

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more…

— Isabelle Huppert

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major…

— Teyonah Parris

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

There is so much bloodshed and action packed into our films these days. Pretty women provide the much-needed respite to the masses…

— Priyamani

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

— David Strathairn

If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre…

— Leigh Whannell

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

— Roy Lee

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on…

— Eddie Redmayne

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to…

— Peter Jackson