Cinema Quotes · Page 84

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

— Afia Nathaniel

The pressure and hype is created by the media. Of course, expectations are there and we cannot stop that nor change yourself…

— Vetrimaaran

A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment.…

— Jonathan Lethem

The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

— Bong Joon-ho

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life…

— Anushka Sharma

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm…

— Ludivine Sagnier

My parents are amazing. When I said I wanted to go into film, they didn't understand it, but they were incredibly supportive.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

When it comes to identity, that was an issue that plagued me for a lot of my life. It's something that I…

— Cherien Dabis

When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

— Paul Wesley

I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the…

— Max Bemis

I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people…

— Taika Waititi

“Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life…

— Federico Fellini

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix…

— Matthew Heineman

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

— Peter Hedges

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

— Alexander Payne

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors,…

— Paul Auster

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects…

— Vin Diesel

As a cinematographer or director, I'm always looking for projects that are able to say a lot with the actor's expressions.

— Reed Morano

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

— Roman Polanski

I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'

— Lauv

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed,…

— Spike Lee

I have a list of things I want to say through my films and I have started doing that.

— Anubhav Sinha

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

— Jason Patric

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a…

— Norman McLaren

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or…

— Gary Ross

I strongly believe that besides having good action, action-oriented films need to have a good baseline for the script.

— Sajid Khan

“It was from a weekly visit to the cinema that you learned (or tried to learn) how to strut, to smoke, to…

— Susan Sontag

Education lays a strong foundation. I was keen on films, but my mother insisted on me finding all about the line I…

— Vaani Kapoor

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though…

— David Cronenberg

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I…

— Godfrey Reggio

We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those…

— Sharmila Tagore

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

— Quentin Tarantino

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I…

— Ishaan Khatter

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

— Roger Ebert