Cinema Quotes · Page 174

The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.

— Colleen Ballinger

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

— Alain Resnais

Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.

— Max von Sydow

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

— Sanjay Dutt

There's more to Gujarati cinema than characters wearing kediya and ghagra choli and saying 'Aa ra ra ra.'

— Paresh Rawal

A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process.

— Lucrecia Martel

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

— Len Lye

My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.

— Sajid Khan

I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I…

— Sydney Pollack

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a…

— Mira Nair

For many years, wildlife film-making has presented a pristine living world. It has created an impression of security and abundance, even in…

— George Monbiot

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love…

— Clemence Poesy

My job is not to make you happy. As a filmmaker and as an actor, my job is not to make you…

— Manoj Bajpayee

A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to…

— Dan Scanlon

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as…

— Alan Bates

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their…

— Ruby Bentall

I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as…

— Storm Saulter

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the…

— Henry Thomas

I was lucky because I used to live right next to a video-rental store. I used to spend so much time watching…

— Nadine Labaki

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to…

— Willem Dafoe

The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones…

— Alex Gibney

The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we…

— Xavier Durringer

I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you…

— Noel Clarke

Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and…

— Suzanne Collins

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

— Todd Haynes

“Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life.”

— Katrina Radke

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

— Tilda Swinton

With American blockbuster cinema, everything is very fast, there's a lot of action and narration.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

— Jet Li

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

— Pooja Bhatt

Sometimes, I check out film sites if a friend sends me the URL.

— Sushmita Sen

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

— Kevin Smith

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

— William Monahan

My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

— Geena Davis

I take my breaks; say no to a lot of serious movie offers because I either don't like the roles or the…

— Arshad Warsi

I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.

— Doug Liman

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

— Clive James

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

— Ryan Gosling

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

— Hedy Lamarr