Cinema Quotes · Page 159

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

— Paul Walker

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

— Helen Mirren

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in…

— Alexander Payne

It's directors' choice if they want to work with me. Not mine.

— Sridevi

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

— Roger Ebert

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

— Fede Alvarez

Cinema in India is growing big time and people abroad have started recognising us.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I want to improve with every film, including being better groomed.

— Radhika Pandit

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's…

— Aaron Eckhart

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time.…

— Megan Griffiths

[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar…

— Nicolas Provost

My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to Cannes. I then…

— Arfi Lamba

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have…

— Garrett Hedlund

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I used to once believe that the script is the most important thing, but now I also believe that the kind of…

— Kunal Khemu

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use,…

— Robert Bresson

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I was approached by Disney to reprise my role but I wasn't interested. The movies are sure to be brilliant but I…

— Denis Lawson

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a…

— Diane Lane

I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and…

— Steven Price

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent…

— Cameron Crowe

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you live in Israel, there are restrictions which come from budget definitely. I came to the point where I had shot…

— Dror Moreh

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

— Kevin Costner

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

— Paul Mazursky

I don't believe in doing 20 films a years and being on number one, number five or anything that kind.

— Soha Ali Khan

I usually surface on social media only when there's a film.

— Nani

No one knows which film will be a hit or flop. Film making is a gamble.

— Tanikella Bharani

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

— Bill Forsyth

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

— Brian De Palma

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

— Patrice Leconte

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

— Imtiaz Ali

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

— James McAvoy

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

— Imogen Poots

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I have always got interesting roles in Malayalam cinema.

— Priyamani

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

— Andrei Tarkovsky