Cinema Quotes · Page 147

You can't work on a film without being changed in some way.

— Ted McGinley

People are waiting for good movies and they are ready to accept them.

— Tanikella Bharani

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

— Dirk Benedict

When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.

— Philippe Falardeau

When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.

— Jørgen Leth

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

— Diane Lane

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

— James Corden

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

— Greg Sestero

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it…

— Brad Bird

Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I…

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

— Jack Nicholson

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of…

— Louis C. K

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people…

— Kyle MacLachlan

The vocabulary of film is camera cuts, it's how they communicate. But games are different. We don't really need to do that.…

— Cory Barlog

The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera…

— Kevin Spacey

Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be…

— Holly Hunter

This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault…

— Peter Bradshaw

My first film was a super-hit. It made the producer earn a lot of money and gave me a lot of fame.…

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

The Good Shepherd was such a daunting project that I had to think about it moment for moment, day by day. My…

— Robert De Niro

“What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be…

— Eric Bentley

I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you…

— Rakul Preet Singh

Lot of people liked me in 'Manorama Six feet Under,' 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye,' 'Dev D' and 'Shanghai' and the only common…

— Abhay Deol

I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very…

— Zack Snyder

Promoting a film can get tiring but if you find a clever way to promote it, it can be fun. Also, it…

— Katrina Kaif

I'm here to be an actor who wants to be remembered for her roles and her films rather than her looks.

— Alia Bhatt

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

— Ira Sachs

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...

— Mick LaSalle

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

— Clint Eastwood

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

— Marti Noxon

Lack of dignity and equal opportunity at workplace for women in cinema is a truth that needs role reversal.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I have nothing against commercial cinema, but I don't have the intelligence to project them.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

— Ryan Phillippe

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

— Ken Loach

I would say the biggest challenge on any film is always time.

— Riley Stearns

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

— Vera Farmiga

I don't make films for everybody; if I did that it would be blandness beyond belief.

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

— Nadine Labaki