Cinema Quotes · Page 194

I don't want to exclusively direct white films, or black films. I want to have a choice.

— Bill Duke

I would definitely want to essay meatier roles in good films.

— Rituparna Sengupta

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

— Danny Boyle

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Good films flop, atrocious films do well. Uncertainty is the only certainty in this business.

— Madhuri Dixit Nene

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

— Karthik Subbaraj

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

— Robert Stromberg

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

— Benedict Samuel

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think…

— Jan de Bont

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me…

— Tim Matheson

TV made me a star, but I wanted to be a movie star. So I started auditioning for films and during the…

— Gurmeet Choudhary

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and…

— Mike Leigh

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's…

— Rithy Panh

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in…

— Emraan Hashmi

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this…

— Ludivine Sagnier

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing…

— Brian Lindstrom

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I…

— Leos Carax

What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that…

— Terry Gilliam

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's…

— Laura Dern

I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an…

— Joel Surnow

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any…

— Archie Panjabi

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what…

— Jude Law

I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit…

— Dakota Fanning

I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do…

— Rakul Preet Singh

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

— Andrzej Wajda

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct…

— Ashton Kutcher

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

— Oskar Werner

A Few Good Men' and 'As Good As It Gets' were the advent of me taking film seriously.

— Paul Walter Hauser

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

— Steve Martin

There is no way of knowing if a film is going to be good.

— Rebecca Hall

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

— Jim Varney

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

— Robert Englund

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

— Joan Crawford

I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

— Haley Bennett

I know people know me as the 'white baddie' of Hindi cinema.

— Bob Christo

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

— Nicole Kidman

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

— Alain Resnais

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

— Atom Egoyan

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

— Robert Redford

I'm a cinephile. I love foreign films; I love films that are really immersive.

— Trevante Rhodes