Cinema Quotes · Page 154

People are fed up of formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.

— Rishi Kapoor

The film 'Richard's Things' was my first time in front of a camera. It was scary but great fun.

— Amanda Redman

We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.

— Keren Woodward

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

— Leigh Whannell

Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film.

— Anonymous

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

— Faye Dunaway

I might sound pompous but I practically refuse at least a film or two a day.

— Arshad Warsi

I emphasize the technical aspects in all my films, not just Hindi.

— Priyadarshan

L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is…

— Andrew Garfield

After reading the script I ask the director about my character's background, what does he do, how he walks, talks, what clothes…

— Jisshu Sengupta

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the…

— Ann Macbeth

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what…

— Shane Carruth

I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these…

— Pilou Asbaek

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's…

— Werner Herzog

There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters.…

— Panos Cosmatos

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes…

— Fahadh Faasil

Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made…

— Bernie Brillstein

“In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature.…

— Chris Palmer

“Film analysis enables us to recognize how the filmmakers have their magic on us, how all the constituent elements of the film…

— Jon Lewis

I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections,…

— Ruby Dee

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's…

— Jonah Hill

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

— Rutina Wesley

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

— David Fincher

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

— Penny Marshall

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

— Cameron Diaz

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

— Irrfan Khan

The audience is open to all kinds of films but the content has to be good.

— Bhushan Kumar

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

— Mike Nichols

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

— Christopher McQuarrie

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

— Rod Lurie

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

— Owen King

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

— Michael Haneke

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

— Roger Corman