Cinema Quotes · Page 556

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly…

— Helen Lawrenson

Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

— Clark Gable

Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The…

— Omar Epps

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the…

— Ann Macbeth

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

— Selma Blair

I love zombie movies.

— The Korean Zombie

I watch German art house films and then I also work on Marvel movies. And I love both of them equally.

— Iman Vellani

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a…

— Joss Whedon

I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me…

— Jeffrey Wright

The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me…

— Philippe Falardeau

I don't believe in the concept of a niche or a space. I'm doing good films and I just want to keep…

— Catherine Tresa

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

— Q-Tip

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition…

— Abbas Kiarostami

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

— Ray Liotta

I watch a lot of movies, I watch a lot of old movies, I watch a lot of great performances, and I…

— Camila Morrone

I realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the…

— Franny Armstrong

A lot of people think I must be weird because of the films I've done. I get that.

— Paul Dano

You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated,…

— Paul Bettany

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

— Kathleen Kennedy

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

— Tim Heidecker

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a…

— Stanley Tucci

For the longest time I was trying to please others. I can blame the whole world for each film that went wrong…

— Shriya Saran

My films have been successful, and therefore, the process has accommodated me. When the studio said 'no,' I did it anyhow. Now…

— Doug Liman

I am here to act only in films with good script.

— Lara Dutta

'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups…

— Steven Soderbergh

I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where…

— Ed Helms

I've acted in Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu films.

— Sonu Sood

When I came to Mumbai, I was working behind the scenes for 10 long years. Back then, music video budgets were insignificant…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

— Mike Leigh

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

— Minnie Driver

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

— Yvette Mimieux

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the…

— Jason Reitman

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope…

— Jim Jarmusch

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're…

— Norman Jewison

In Delhi, I got a chance to assist someone on a documentary film. Then I moved to Mumbai. This was before the…

— Anubhav Sinha

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

— David Ayer

A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other.…

— Cary Fukunaga

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

— Zoe Kravitz