Cinema Quotes · Page 549

I got my heart broken to find out that the independent film community was so unwelcoming. It was not open to women…

— Kelly Reichardt

Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I…

— Werner Herzog

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style,…

— Lee Daniels

There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

— Travis Knight

I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a…

— Takashi Miike

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke…

— Paul Dalio

If you cannot make moving pictures about yourself, your country and your culture, it's as if you do not exist anymore in…

— Rithy Panh

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

— Peter Greenaway

I love film, but I feeling a bit needy about returning to the stage.

— Aneurin Barnard

I think listening to the director is the number one strength an actor should have.

— Varun Dhawan

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

— Michael Showalter

“In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it…

— Julius Dobos

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

— Jean-Luc Godard

To be a director, you have to be especially patient.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as…

— Marianne Elliott

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just…

— Roger Ebert

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I…

— Spike Jonze

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

— Jonathan Demme

I was India's youngest producer. I was 21 when I produced my first film. I've continued to produce films because of the…

— Pooja Bhatt

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to…

— Channing Tatum

My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had…

— Raoul Peck

Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt…

— Errol Morris

I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was…

— James Cromwell

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

— Alden Ehrenreich

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women…

— Helen Mirren

I choose my films in a way that helps me do justice to all of them. Also, I like doing time-consuming films…

— Tamannaah

It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I…

— Kevin Kline

In my films, accessibility is something I do on purpose.

— Hito Steyerl

I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those…

— Daniel Espinosa

There are so many things happening nowadays that you've seen in films from years ago, like cloning and all of those things…

— Kaya Scodelario

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of…

— Guy Pearce

I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was…

— Louie Schwartzberg

Our films have to entertain without the viewer being guided to a humdrum set of do's and don't's. At the same time,…

— Vivek Agnihotri

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are…

— Roger Michell

I kind of grew up watching R-rated movies and more adult content because that's where all the best performances are.

— Cameron Monaghan

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like,…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

When the film industry moves to the 21st century, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the money used in…

— Mahesh Bhatt

There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to…

— Steven Hill

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you…

— Anton Corbijn