Cinema Quotes · Page 163

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.

— Brenda Blethyn

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

— Matthew McConaughey

I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

— Debra Granik

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

— Edgar Wright

I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes.

— Glenn Gould

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

— Robert Redford

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.

— Daniel Radcliffe

One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well,…

— Hugo Weaving

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

— Mark Polish

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate…

— Mike Leigh

Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad.…

— Chris Pine

The most important thing you have to do is practice. Watch the film and be self confident, but also be self critical…

— Nelson Agholor

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

— Jack Valenti

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make…

— Kajol

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and…

— Justin Chon

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at…

— Elvis Mitchell

I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at…

— Spike Lee

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and…

— Jared Harris

You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that…

— Christopher Meledandri

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's…

— Michael Schoeffling

What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard…

— Dee Rees

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

— April Pearson

At the end of the day, everything boils down to money and if the film doesn't do well, then there's no point.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

— Takashi Miike

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

— George Lucas

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.

— Lena Headey

I would love to do regional cinema, provided the role is exciting enough and artistically challenging.

— Nushrat Bharucha

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

— Penelope Spheeris

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

— Audrey Tautou

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

— Anson Mount

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Humor and family emotions are integral to Telugu cinema.

— Akhil Akkineni

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

— Guy Pearce

'Jolly LLB' is one of my favorite movies. Courtroom films are rare to come by in Telugu.

— Nani

I've done a lot of independent films that not a lot of people have seen.

— Katia Winter

I am very choosy about my films. I don't do a film just for the sake of money.

— R. Madhavan