Cinema Quotes · Page 131

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

— Sharon Tate

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

— Elisha Cuthbert

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

— Eli Roth

I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I want to do a 'Facejacker' film. I want to explore the characters more, maybe do a Terry Tibbs chat show.

— Kayvan Novak

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

— Jodie Foster

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

— Shelley Duvall

I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.

— Poonam Dhillon

In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about…

— Samantha Akkineni

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play…

— Jennifer Lawrence

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott,…

— Neil Marshall

'Kaaka Muttai' has gone places. It's a great feeling. There is respect from family and friends. The film has travelled to international…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get…

— Bryan Cranston

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera…

— Helen McCrory

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain…

— Avi Lewis

Directors such as LV Prasad would enact the whole scene for the actors. He used to enact the scenes for Raj Kapoor…

— Asrani

I did a film [about a con-artist mom and son] called Bringing Up Bobby that Famke Janssen wrote and directed. No one's…

— Milla Jovovich

One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have…

— Colin Farrell

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable.…

— Peter Coyote

When I am traveling the world promoting the films, I say I am on vacation, but it's not really true, I guess.…

— Taylor Lautner

Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious…

— Walter Hill

There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said,…

— James L. Brooks

I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such…

— Rutger Hauer

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films.…

— Clive Barker

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

— Bennett Miller

I might have done around 100 films but still I have to be successful.

— Asrani

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

— Walter Salles

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

— David Copperfield

I am not really attached to my films and work. The film industry is just a small part of my life.

— Kay Kay Menon

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

— Dito Montiel

As a movie lover you make movies that you would want to see, and I think that's really important.

— Fred Hechinger

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

— Taylor Hackford

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

— Martin Scorsese

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

— Mathieu Kassovitz

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

— Jonathan Glazer

I am hopeful that films can connect people who are in conflict in a separated world.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

— Uma Thurman

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

— Sriram Raghavan

We don't have home movies in my family. We have people's exhibit A.

— Christopher Titus