Cinema Quotes · Page 97

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set…

— Gillian Anderson

Twenty years ago I brought young, unknown film maker Joe Wright with me to a private show of 'Nil by Mouth.' Gary…

— Kathy Burke

Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But,…

— Victor Banerjee

I had family who exposed me to all sorts of different media involving actors - films, theatrical productions touring through Boston. My…

— Hari Nef

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story…

— Joe Wright

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you…

— Ang Lee

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to…

— James Wan

Y'know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it's always kind of miserable. Love doesn't work and then, if it does work,…

— Josh O'Connor

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit…

— Frederic Tcheng

You don't need love and sex in films

— Greta Gerwig

It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it…

— Christopher Lennertz

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the…

— Denzel Washington

Yeah as the director I consider myself to be the coach, and my actors are my players. So I have to show…

— Derek Cianfrance

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need…

— Arin Paul

I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts…

— Albert Serra

I'm not a film-snob.

— Anonymous

I think I can try the film world out for a while.

— Kristanna Loken

I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to…

— George A. Romero

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of…

— Susanne Bier

I come from the school of thought that feels that if you can shoot film, you should shoot film.

— Sean Baker

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to…

— Saffron Burrows

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling…

— Robert Gottlieb

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

— Christina Ricci

I'm more of a classic thriller/Hitchcock kind of gal myself. I don't watch a lot of new horror films, but I like…

— Zooey Deschanel

A good film is also a documentary

— Eric Rohmer

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

— Zach Gilford

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

— Virginie Ledoyen

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show…

— Anthony Michael Hall

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

— Alan Parker

I'm not a big film buff; I like watching films, but I tend to forget them.

— James May

Some films change your life a little.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

I know, just from directing television, where you have a huge support system of producers and writers and a script supervisor -…

— Scott Foley

I really believe in trying to fulfil what my director wants, what I can do to make that scene better.

— Shruti Haasan

See, most films are about achievers. You see a film like 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' or 'Dhoni.' Even 'Gandhi,' or the biopic on…

— Rajkumar Hirani

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

— Tippi Hedren

“[on what interests him as a moviegoer] I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make…

— Michael Haneke

I never thought a film about a sperm donor could work with audiences in India, but it did.

— Shoojit Sircar

If someone says 'Oh, that's a really good film,' before I go and see it, I'll probably think it is, but then…

— Paul Whitehouse