Cinema Quotes · Page 199

I try to watch film with teammates and help them as well, so that's just part of the game, part of playing.

— Rajon Rondo

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

— Alan Rickman

I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people.

— David Brooks

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

— Logan Lerman

In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.

— Richard Corliss

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

— Brett Ratner

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or…

— Ben Affleck

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all…

— Brendan Fletcher

If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors,…

— Bill Hader

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other…

— Marcia Gay Harden

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm…

— John Landis

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not…

— Eve Arnold

There's absolutely no doubt that I enjoy doing romantic films more, and they've worked for me, too. But I love doing action…

— Naga Chaitanya

I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've…

— Doug Liman

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

— Thomas Kretschmann

I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing…

— Takeshi Kitano

I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn…

— Jodie Foster

When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

With Hellboy I am doing a comic-book movie. That's what's so great about being an actor: You get to do Meet Joe…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be…

— Cary Fukunaga

“Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions…

— Chuck Klosterman

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks…

— David Nicholls

“It happens sometimes that you accidentally star in a little public performance of your very own comedy, tragedy, or melodrama. You’re running…

— Liane Moriarty

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

— John Frankenheimer

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I don't want to act in a preachy movie just because that is more sensible. I don't watch that kind of cinema.

— Tamannaah

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

— Shane West

When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.

— Guido Palau

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

— Clive Barker

As a kid, I grew up watching movies in the cinema, so that dream and charm will never die.

— Vicky Kaushal

I watch a lot of classic movies - my TV guilty pleasures are 'The Wonder Years' or the original 'MASH' show.

— Kerry Bishe

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

— Priyadarshan

The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.

— Wang Jianlin

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

— Jim McKay

I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience.

— Bindi Irwin

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

— Anushka Sharma

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

— Jay Duplass

A film career does not define me. There is a other side to my life.

— Shamita Shetty