Cinema Quotes · Page 195

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul

“Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake”

— Alfred Hitchcock

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

— Hong Chau

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.

— Claude Berri

Coming from a film family didn't help me much and I had to struggle a lot.

— Anu Malik

I did not grow up around films. So, I would say books have been my major influence.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I'm really grateful for the fact that I have full artistic control over my career. I can choose what film or TV…

— Bill Bailey

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous…

— Zhang Ziyi

I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal,…

— Neill Blomkamp

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot…

— Baz Luhrmann

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

— Andy Serkis

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing…

— Liz W. Garcia

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to…

— J. Lee Thompson

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear…

— John Kricfalusi

Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt…

— Errol Morris

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

With film, you read the whole script three or four times, and you really have a solid blueprint of who your character…

— Graham Phillips

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working…

— Howard Shore

Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase…

— William Friedkin

In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire…

— David Lynch

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to…

— Harvey Weinstein

I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't…

— Sonam Kapoor

I don't do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.

— Celine Sciamma

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

— Jim Piddock

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

— Woody Allen

When I am getting to do good work on TV, why not concentrate on that? Why think about what films I can…

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.

— Nicole Holofcener

I don't think that a film that has children in it necessarily needs to be a children's film.

— Pankaj Kapur

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

— Alexandre Desplat

I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy.

— Kelli Berglund

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I quit south Indian films because I was bored. The fans in south India were also quite demanding.

— Nagma

I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.

— Douglas Trumbull

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.

— Peter Berg

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

— Natalie Wood

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

— Kylie Minogue

I've been going to the movies since I was 6 or 7 years old.

— Michael Rooker