Cinema Quotes · Page 203

I've done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I've also done some really great things.

— Nikki DeLoach

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

— Woody Allen

“Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the…

— Stephen Amidon

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

— Stephen Fry

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

— Steven Spielberg

When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

“Sunset and sunrise are two splendid movies that you can watch for seventy or eight years every day!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I don't believe in preachy films. I don't like such films. Having said that, I don't even enjoy films that only 'entertain.'…

— Vivek Agnihotri

I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it…

— Juno Temple

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles,…

— Keanu Reeves

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at…

— Samuel Barnett

I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do…

— Darren Aronofsky

I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people,…

— Kishore Kumar

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in…

— David Chase

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting…

— Jonas Armstrong

My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it…

— Edgar Wright

When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to…

— Edward Snowden

People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked…

— Rosario Dawson

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy…

— Peter Greenaway

When I was a kid the first Bruce Lee film I ever saw was 'Enter The Dragon,' and after that I was…

— Gareth Evans

I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a…

— Antoine Fuqua

Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I…

— Eli Roth

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation…

— Tilda Swinton

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.

— Ian Mckellen

As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.

— David Robert Mitchell

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

— Maddie Hasson

I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

— Campbell Scott

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as…

— Ken Burns

I'm interested in the film world; I love being a storyteller.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.

— Mithun Chakraborty

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

— Bojana Novakovic

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

— Anthony Michael Hall

I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

— Azazel Jacobs

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

— Rupert Wyatt

'Vetri Selvan' is the first film where I play a conventional romantic role, which I found very challenging.

— Radhika Apte

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

— Sonia Braga

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

— Bruce Campbell

I wasn't the star-obsessed person. I never wanted to meet stars at film sets.

— Vicky Kaushal