Cinema Quotes · Page 172

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

— Ryan Reynolds

I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.

— Claudia Schiffer

If you don't want to collaborate, you shouldn't work in film.

— Molly Gordon

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

— Holliday Grainger

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

— Jeffrey Jones

Most of my popular movies have seen me cast in serious roles. But then I am mostly offered such roles.

— Atul Kulkarni

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

— Christy Lemire

Any film which makes me play myself on the screen comes easy for me.

— Ammy Virk

I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you…

— David Oyelowo

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the…

— Richard Attenborough

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a…

— Takashi Miike

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are…

— Drake

There's an amazing movie, I think the best war movie ever made: it's called 'Come and See.' Soviet film. Made in the…

— Craig Mazin

You always get typecast. You get typecast the moment you enter the industry and you do your first few films. Actually, you…

— Arshad Warsi

It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's…

— Sergio Leone

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any…

— Helen Mirren

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was…

— Ben Affleck

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. If you acknowledge…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one…

— Greta Garbo

I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would…

— Darius McCrary

When you get many opportunities early on, and you have people who have been working for a while counting on you, you…

— Billy Crudup

I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for…

— Sydney Pollack

We had this idea, and I think a lot of people did going in, that you can make some short film and…

— Ross Duffer

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

— Torrey DeVitto

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

— Chris Owen

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

— Mike Leigh

The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

— Tom Hanks

I don't know when I will go back to TV. If my films don't do well, I will have to go back.

— Prachi Desai

I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.

— Harshvardhan Rane

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I always try to do movies that are different from the ones I've done before.

— Alexandre Desplat

We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.

— Max Minghella

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

— Adrian Lyne

For me, it's important to unhinge the system through my films.

— Alice Rohrwacher

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

— James Mangold

You don't set out making a film that will rake in 100 crores; you just want to make a good film.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

— Anthony Minghella

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I really like action movies. The 'Die Hard' franchise. And the 'Bourne' movies.

— Alexa Chung