Cinema Quotes · Page 144

I'd like to act in Punjabi films and do some great roles instead of just dance sequences.

— Nora Fatehi

I'm a walk-on guy. When the director says, 'Action,' I'm on.

— Kelsey Grammer

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

— Orson Welles

Cinema is diversifying; there's room for every kind of cinema today.

— Bobby Deol

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

— Henry Selick

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

— Steve Guttenberg

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

— Tim Heidecker

Films with fresh themes and able directors are a pleasure to associate yourself with.

— Priyamani

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and…

— Jack Nicholson

As a principle, I will never react to film criticisms. As long as they are part of film fraternity, whatever they say…

— Kamal Haasan

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I…

— Joel Silver

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what…

— Stephen Gaghan

'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they…

— Ira Sachs

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working…

— John Singleton

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them…

— Lee Daniels

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but…

— Samantha Barks

When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it…

— Geoff Dyer

How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of…

— Khaled Hosseini

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some…

— Ajay Devgan

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just…

— Winona Ryder

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting…

— Geena Davis

When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films,…

— Jim Jarmusch

I only worked on that one movie, but then quickly realized that the path of being an assistant director was not gonna…

— Suzanne Todd

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I choose films preferably based on content, and then I see the kind of team I have to work with.

— Fawad Khan

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

— Amber Heard

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

— Douglas Sirk

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

— S. S. Rajamouli

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

— Nan Goldin

I didn't have any godfather in the industry and had to prove myself with each film.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

— Rachel Weisz

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

— Mia Wasikowska

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

— Dougray Scott

I could always say I wished I had a better film career... but overall, I've been one of the lucky ones.

— Ed O'Neill

I don't expect every movie to be done exactly the way I would have done it.

— Stan Lee

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

— Chris Rock

You can kind of judge how old a film is by the size of the cell phones.

— Bruce Willis

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

— Ansel Elgort