Cinema Quotes · Page 167

I used to have worries about my film releases and I used to pay money just to get them released.

— Jagapathi Babu

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

— Tamannaah

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

— Jason Clarke

There is always a hit and a flop, it's part of working in the film industry.

— Randhir Kapoor

I am a teetotaler but I have to say that the film business is intoxicating.

— Bhushan Kumar

Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

— Mahesh Babu

I am not from any acting background, not from any film family.

— Vishnu Vishal

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

— Joan Allen

Playwrights are discovering you can bypass the shorthand of cinema and really explore a situation, ramp up the pressure, over several hours…

— Adrian Lester

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very…

— Nadine Labaki

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit…

— James Marsden

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

— Errol Morris

“The movies are probably a very unsafe guide to popular taste, because the film industry is virtually a monopoly, which means that…

— George Orwell

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make…

— Michael Caine

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I…

— Audrey Tautou

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and…

— Michael Socha

For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and…

— Christopher Nolan

The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I…

— Bill Plympton

I had begun my career with emotional films - Rajasthani film 'Bai Chali Sasariye.' Later I did several films as a heroine,…

— Upasana Singh

It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love…

— Karyn Kusama

I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want…

— Paul Reubens

I'm a big fan of Steven Seagal early films. On Deadly Ground, I'll watch that anytime it comes on. That's one of…

— Michael Jai White

I'm one of those people that think that what you put up on screen, no matter how you're stating it, is usually…

— Azazel Jacobs

When you're doing an investigation of a company that is doing things that they don't want to be found out, and they…

— David Farrier

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.

— Vincent Cassel

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

— Melanie Lynskey

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

— Peter Bogdanovich

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

— Jack Nicholson

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

— Michael Gambon

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

— Judd Apatow

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

— Paul Walker

Film is a medium where the audience gives you 100 per cent.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

About film direction, nothing is impossible. Maybe someday, you will see me donning the director's hat.

— Rituparna Sengupta

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

— Kieran Bew

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

— John Cassavetes

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

— Paul Dano

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

— Evangeline Lilly

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

— Federico Fellini

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

— Graeme Souness