Cinema Quotes · Page 129

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

— Peter Jackson

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

— Mike Lookinland

“End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island”

— C.B. Murphy

Our responsibility is not just to make films for music but to make music for films.

— Bhushan Kumar

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

— Dane Cook

I'm dying to experiment with roles and touch new realms of cinema.

— Shriya Saran

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

— Louis Leterrier

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

— Terri Windling

The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity…

— Todd Haynes

I'm very lucky to say that I worked with a lot of directors who cannot make a bad film. Like when Wim…

— Udo Kier

I used to consume a lot of horror movies as a teenager, and some impressed me more than other ones. I would…

— Gaspar Noe

When I started working in Mumbai, I was interested in working in the indie and niche spaces, as they do make really…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between…

— Kabir Bedi

I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in…

— Billie Eilish

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one…

— Kelly Blatz

Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to…

— Harry Dean Stanton

There are some movies that you feel like doing because of the script. Some because it sounds like fun, some because that's…

— Naseeruddin Shah

When you're doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it's most important to get people…

— Kevin Hart

Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and…

— John Landis

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What…

— Chinua Achebe

I feel like each time I do something I want it to be more and more recognizable that it's me so, by…

— Chris Cunningham

I was shooting a scene in my new film, No Strings Attached, in which I say to Natalie Portman, “If you miss…

— Ashton Kutcher

It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before…

— Luke Evans

On a serious note, I just enjoy exploring the unconventional. I like Alfred Hitchcock; I actually grew up watching his films. A…

— Sriram Raghavan

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

— Cameron Diaz

Generally, drama films are made with stars - I broke the rule unknowingly.

— Anubhav Sinha

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

— Frances McDormand

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

— Roman Polanski

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

— Ben Affleck

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

— Parker Posey

Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

— George Clooney

You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.

— Amyra Dastur

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

— Nikita Dutta

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

— Agnes Varda

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

— Farhan Akhtar

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

— Shahrukh Khan

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my…

— Diane Lane

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

— Joanna Lumley