Cinema Quotes · Page 146

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

— Emmanuelle Beart

What I want to do with cinema is keep it as universal as possible.

— Ekta Kapoor

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

— Claire Danes

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

— Victor Garber

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

— James Gray

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

— Salman Rushdie

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

— Terry Zwigoff

The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

— Riz Ahmed

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or…

— Peter Dinklage

The thing I like best about the British film industry is its freedom. Because we don't have a star system, you're not…

— Tara Fitzgerald

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in…

— Mahesh Bhatt

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because…

— Ray Harryhausen

I don't really make films in Denmark. 'Bronson' was shot in Rottingham, 'Valhalla Rising' was made in Glasgow, and 'Drive' was made…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time…

— Jean Reno

For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his…

— Werner Herzog

You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time: there's the opportunity for…

— Naveen Andrews

In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working…

— Bostin Christopher

Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University…

— Werner Herzog

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in…

— Dan Gilroy

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals,…

— Edgar Wright

I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm…

— Alexander Payne

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

— Shoojit Sircar

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

— Kimberley Nixon

Films that take place in the past reproduce the aesthetics of the past. I question the aesthetics of the past.

— RaMell Ross

It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I've admired.

— Jim Sarbh

It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature.

— Aimee Garcia

Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

— Alex Cox

I kind of don't like doing film commentaries because I think they're kind of weird.

— Peter Segal

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

— Dave McCary

I've met people from across the spectrum and I think film should be the same.

— Adam Pearson

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

— David Hockney

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

— Taika Waititi

When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release.

— Shoojit Sircar

I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema.

— Kimberley Nixon

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

— Jean Dujardin

If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.

— Ali