Cinema Quotes · Page 919

Filmmaking is a real craft.

— Sean Durkin

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid,…

— Ernst Lubitsch

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,…

— Miranda July

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the…

— Roland Emmerich

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me,…

— Jonathan Levine

Once the shooting for a film starts, you have to go abroad for it but your family is here. The constant shuttling…

— Rohini Hattangadi

My final ambition is to turn director.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'm very lucky. Most of my friends wait long times for jobs and also don't get the chance to work on 20…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

What bothers me is that the cinema - what Fox News calls the "wholesome cinema that our children are supposed to be…

— Tilda Swinton

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film…

— Radha Mitchell

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories…

— Wes Craven

There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back…

— Ray Liotta

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early…

— Elisa Kreisinger

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night…

— Russell Crowe

I tapped into my potential in Bengali films, which I don't think directors in Bollywood were able to understand.

— Riya Sen

My approach to films is very different. I'll do a film only if I like it. If it doesn't work, I can…

— Regina Cassandra

For me, the driving force is the audience, and the day that stops, I will stop doing films. The day a part…

— Varun Dhawan

As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the…

— Helen Mirren

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have…

— Larenz Tate

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if…

— David Mamet

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

— Ray Stevenson

I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts…

— Nilo Cruz

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

— Mahima Chaudhry