Cinema Quotes · Page 555

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film…

— Robert Morgan

I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make…

— Bennett Miller

I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than…

— Ryan Gosling

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally…

— David Morrissey

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

— Steven James

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable…

— Akira Kurosawa

“So called art films. Movies like that never explained what was going on. Explanations were rejected as some kind of evil that…

— Haruki Murakami

I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t…

— J. J. Abrams

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the…

— Jay-Z

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting.…

— John Hurt

Let's put it this way: if I were to direct a feature film, I would not be in it.

— Paul Wesley

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.

— Guillaume Canet

I love the theater, I'd love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I say yes to a film depending on who is directing it.

— Tamannaah

Football is very cinema friendly and the intense competition that the game involves only charges up the atmosphere. This cannot be achieved…

— Vivek Agnihotri

Every time I went to the cinema or to the theater, I would come out with this overwhelming sense of joy.

— Harris Dickinson

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

I like to shoot feature films because it's about capturing emotions... words like guilt, hurt, betrayal.

— Rajiv Menon

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

— Ice T

I like four-hour movies.

— Kevin Costner

Only the right films work.

— Bobby Deol

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room -…

— Julia Stiles

I don't make films, and because I don't make films, I'm not an expert in the craft of bringing a film into…

— Leslie Jamison

The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.

— Patricia Birch

Basically if you're trying to write films in England you might as well decide to hide for two years. It's just meetings…

— Graham Linehan

That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that…

— Casey Neistat

When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage…

— Guy Maddin

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and…

— John Waters

I don't see a future for Broadway-style theatre in India. We already have Hindi cinema, but small, intimate theatre will survive as…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film,…

— Nadine Velazquez

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique…

— Ginger Rogers

I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked…

— Ken Leung

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point…

— Jim McKay

There can be a lot of waiting around on any film set.

— Julie Ann Emery

For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one…

— Neeraj Kabi

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

— Ben Affleck

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

— Alexander Payne

If your director knows what he wants on screen, it makes things easier.

— Sai Pallavi