Cinema Quotes · Page 152

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

— Joseph Kosinski

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

— Edgar Ramirez

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

— David Strathairn

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

— Pratyusha Banerjee

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

I feel scenes of sexual intimacy are ruined if the director is embarrassed.

— Aparna Sen

After listening to the script of 'Sarileru Neekevvaru,' I felt it was an apt film for me to re-enter films.

— Vijayashanti

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

— Mel Brooks

I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It…

— Caitriona Balfe

Some of the corporate houses are using films as a means to market their brands. They are not concerned with the storyline.…

— Satish Kaushik

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector…

— Pharrell Williams

I love creating bold, cinematic moments with my runway shows, so the idea of being a film director has always been appealing…

— Tommy Hilfiger

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he…

— Jean Renoir

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get…

— Ann Dowd

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie,…

— Neil Patrick Harris

With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative…

— Imogen Poots

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter…

— Diane Ladd

I've worked on a lot of fun movies, but my favorite job was having a boss who gave the order to take…

— Kal Penn

My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally…

— Justin Lin

I certainly think that - especially with the challenges of making movies now, where you're making them in 20 or 30 days…

— Bryan Bertino

I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom…

— Alice Lowe

I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

“To proceed, I imagine life as a film being screened by an incompetent projectionist.”

— Matthew Belmonte

My son had seen 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' but he wasn't happy about it because my father bullies me in the film.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.

— Alan Menken

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

— Mani Ratnam

Apart from music, T-Series is also producing a couple of films. We'll never be a film factory though.

— Bhushan Kumar

What is a good script without a good director or a good director without a good actor?

— Lisa Haydon

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

— Ron Perlman

I have not done films that need me to be a superstar. I have done more off-beat cinema.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I never hired a PR agency in my life, nor do I believe in promoting and marketing my films.

— Rekha

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that…

— Ajay Devgan

I want to do only those films which come from a real place.

— Parvathy

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

— Tom Hooper

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

— Diego Luna