Cinema Quotes · Page 148

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

— Thomas Langmann

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

— Esha Gupta

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

— Michel Hazanavicius

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Maybe my films are not perfect - maybe a machine could do that, but that's not what I'm after.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

— Gillian Flynn

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

— Ken Burns

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend…

— Luke Ford

Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it -…

— David Gordon Green

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized…

— Jensen Ackles

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather…

— Simon Pegg

I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a…

— Kevin Chapman

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to…

— Craig McCracken

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up…

— Rick Heinrichs

'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that…

— Harry Dean Stanton

I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made.…

— Kevin Kline

I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where…

— Ed Helms

I had just finished reading The Day of the Locust when this piece was brought to my attention, and I was like,…

— Matt Bomer

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so…

— Sarah Polley

My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs programmes including 'Panorama,' and I didn't think he'd…

— Sarah Alexander

“There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print…

— Don DeLillo

I love that about filmmaking - seeing final product and getting to see everyone else that you don't necessarily engage with on…

— Jai Courtney

Besides kind of like the Wes Anderson, or, of course, a lot of the European movies, most everybody in the States, the…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.

— Nina Jacobson

I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.

— Allu Arjun

I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable.

— Rza

Who would want to do a bad film? It's just that not all films work in my favour, and I'm fine with…

— Karthi

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

— George A. Romero

Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

— Leland Orser

I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

— Abbie Cornish

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

— Ridley Scott

There are no hero-heroine films any more. They are more character-oriented.

— Vatsal Sheth

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

— Michael Snow

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

— Martin Scorsese

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

— Jack Valenti

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

— Nani

“I played the best role in my life. I had a great director.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go…

— Keeley Hawes