Cinema Quotes · Page 565

The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I got offered big roles after 'Badhaai Ho' but if the film hadn't worked, I wouldn't have gotten. It's business, nobody is…

— Neena Gupta

I'll audition for something and then the feedback has been, 'The director wants you, the creative people want you, but the studio…

— Melanie Lynskey

'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain' is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.

— Rajpal Yadav

I wasn't doing any movies because I was not getting the offers.

— Alok Nath

“The worst film of a good director is better than the best film of a bad director.”

— Tom Roston

When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using…

— Mike Birbiglia

Playwrights are discovering you can bypass the shorthand of cinema and really explore a situation, ramp up the pressure, over several hours…

— Adrian Lester

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

— Kristen Wiig

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can…

— Sigourney Weaver

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

— Balachandra Menon

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

— Maggie Smith

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.

— Anonymous

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

— William Shatner

I am a big fan of sleek action films.

— Mani Ratnam

I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he…

— Nicolas Cage

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

— Neil Jordan

I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done…

— Ram Charan

I love zombie films.

— Jamie Hewlett

In the year 1943 my grandfather, Shri Vijay Bhatt made a film by the name of 'Ram Rajya.'

— Vikram Bhatt

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.…

— George Hickenlooper

I joined 'Meru' midstream after my co-director Jimmy Chin had already filmed the 2008 and 2011 climbs.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

In fact, what I love about cinema is the real work itself, which is still a collective effort, all done together. I…

— Alice Rohrwacher

With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick…

— Rajkumar Hirani

If your first film does badly, there's no guarantee of the second film.

— Amyra Dastur

I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's…

— Cary Fukunaga

I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of…

— Raoul Peck

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

— Diego Luna

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and…

— Yasmine Hamdan

If based on popularity, people will come to theaters because of my name, then I would be very happy, but it isn't…

— Daisy Shah

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create…

— Shane West

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

— Pauline Collins

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to…

— Stan Lee

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a…

— Stephen Daldry

I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan.…

— Ronit Roy

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

'Lootera' happened nearly 10 years after television. It was the first film I auditioned for.

— Vikrant Massey

You don't want to watch a film for two hours that depresses you or makes you think so much it evokes a…

— Sushmita Sen