Cinema Quotes · Page 77

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But…

— Spike Lee

Film is very condensed.

— Kevin Spacey

“Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

— Rebecca Romijn

I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like…

— Grace Phipps

Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular…

— Amy Pascal

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene…

— Vin Diesel

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

— Neil Jordan

I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest…

— Terry Zwigoff

Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I had intended to make another film, called Pocket Money, which was to be about children at a school. I was very…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell…

— Sebastian Lelio

I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.

— Akshaye Khanna

I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and…

— Ben Affleck

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

— Martin Short

If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback…

— Rick Heinrichs

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the…

— Jim Jarmusch

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

— Rod Lurie

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether…

— Isabelle Huppert

A good role is one that moves along with the story, like 'Baazigar' and 'Kareeb' for example. Similarly, I agreed to '36…

— Johnny Lever

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea.…

— Linda Hunt

I would do background and extra stuff, I would do student films, I just found every opportunity I could to be on…

— Simu Liu

You need a lot of experience to direct a film.

— Esha Deol

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

— Dougray Scott

I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!

— Sonam Kapoor

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

— Michael Giacchino

I was in a play called 'Hood.' I was an extra in 'Passion of the Christ.' I did corporate videos, commercials, little…

— Nikita Dutta

I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it!

— Timothy Spall

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter…

— Diane Ladd

I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously.…

— Dori Berinstein

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept…

— Preity Zinta

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

— Joshua Michael Stern

My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method…

— Javier Bardem

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast.…

— Maggie Q

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

— Stellan Skarsgard

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with…

— Clive Owen

I always was a great fan of Malayalam cinema, Sathyan in particular. I loved their understated acting.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Generally, it's a very calculated risk when it comes to making a film.

— Jackky Bhagnani

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

— Wong Kar-wai