Cinema Quotes · Page 185

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

— Sondra Locke

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

— Krysten Ritter

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

— Alan Parker

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

— Arthur Cohn

I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.

— Ravi Teja

What attracts me to Hindi films is the monetary benefits connected with it.

— Priyadarshan

My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist.

— Rahul Roy

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

— Ira Sachs

I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery.…

— Himesh Reshammiya

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

— Nick Nolte

I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's…

— Charlie Rowe

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care…

— Diego Luna

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience…

— Tony Kushner

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but…

— Barbara Broccoli

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called…

— Eli Wallach

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films…

— Lee Isaac Chung

When I work, obviously the material is the first and most important thing. Then the director and who I'll be working with.…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“The porn films are not about sex. Sex is airbrushed and digitally washed out of the films. There is no acting because…

— Chris Hedges

There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and…

— Christoph Waltz

Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them…

— Alexander Payne

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to…

— Stephen Daldry

And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror…

— Trishelle Cannatella

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the…

— Steven Soderbergh

I am a very calculative producer. I make films like business.

— Bhushan Kumar

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

— Jason Reitman

If I was as tough as I'm made out to be in movies, I wouldn't have to worry.

— Burt Reynolds

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.

— Evangeline Lilly

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I'm always open to acting in Tamil films. In fact, I'm open to films from the south.

— Riya Sen

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

— Asin

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

— Hermann Goring

I had several offers to act in films. But I rejected all of them and decided to plunge into politics.

— Rakhi Sawant

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

— Lena Headey

I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

— John C. Reilly

I've always admired how closely someone like C.V. Kumar works with the creative team to promote a film.

— Vishnu Vishal

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

— Mike Birbiglia

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

— John Boyega

A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make…

— Ken Loach