Cinema Quotes · Page 209

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

— Adam Rapp

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

— Frank Darabont

At the height of my film career I joined politics because I felt I had more to do than just act.

— Jaya Prada

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

— Amit Trivedi

I am known by my performance, so neither do big films need me nor do I big films.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

— Cyril Cusack

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

— Nandita Das

I have Kalpana Lajmi's 'Kyon.' It focuses on teenage crime. My mother will play my reel-life mother in the film. I am…

— Riya Sen

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over…

— Gena Rowlands

What you feel about a film is what you feel when you're in love with a woman. You fight for her love…

— Gautham Menon

Films are done in about three months, and television takes up about ten months out of the year working on the same…

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you…

— Anonymous

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you…

— Bahman Ghobadi

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers…

— Clark Gregg

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might…

— Salman Khan

You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories…

— John Leguizamo

As the soul of the film it has to work for you otherwise you don't take it up at all. It takes…

— Mani Ratnam

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all…

— Walter Murch

“I thought about how in movies, usually action movies, a cheap way of getting the audience to invest in the plot is…

— Joey Goebel

With films it's not usually that I have a particular character I'm looking for; I'll read the character and my imagination will…

— Lydia Wilson

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas…

— Ann Patchett

I was smoking a huge amount and having real bad premonitions and then I got this role where the guy dies of…

— Gerard Butler

I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's…

— Lea Seydoux

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

— Bobby Deol

Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

— Alden Ehrenreich

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Well, obviously 'Mirzya' didn't do well at the box-office which is fine. It's not a film for everybody.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees.

— Kishore Kumar

'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.

— James Wan

I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of…

— Dave McCary

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

— Elvis Mitchell

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I'm happy I'm doing films at a slow pace rather than doing anything and everything.

— Ileana D'Cruz

If at all I make films till I die, I want to make ones that last.

— Sudha Kongara

A film becomes hit with the equal participation of every actors and crew members.

— Govinda

One always looks forward to working with new people and that's what cinema is also all about.

— Mohnish Bahl

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

— Cary Fukunaga

I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.

— Kim Longinotto