Cinema Quotes · Page 215

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

— Sydney Pollack

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

— Peter Jackson

I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

— Dove Cameron

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

— Ethan Hawke

I would like to take up any kind of film that comes my way if I find the story interesting and challenging.

— Vicky Kaushal

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

— James Cromwell

I want to work with as many directors as possible because with each director, you learn something new.

— Kalki Koechlin

With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore.…

— David Slade

I remember finding out that the same person made all of these different movies that I love. 'Thelma & Louise' and 'Alien'…

— Fred Hechinger

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires…

— Jim Coleman

Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that…

— Ziad Doueiri

Whenever I work on any Yash Raj film, I feel that they believed in me, and that's why I have been able…

— Anushka Sharma

Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring…

— Rhianna Pratchett

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like:…

— Imogen Poots

If you start doing a television or a film job and you suddenly think it's a mistake - the director's horrible or…

— Lesley Sharp

I love action films because I have grown up seeing some of the brilliant movies of the genre like 'Ghatak,' 'Ghayal,' 'Shiva.'…

— Kunal Khemu

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and…

— Jeff Daniels

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve.…

— Miranda Richardson

One hopes for that type of result but you just never know what factors will work in your favor. I think I…

— Aurora Guerrero

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the…

— Bruno Dumont

It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city…

— Stanley Donen

I'm planning some films in the U.K., and it will have pros and cons. It takes a lot more time to set…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.

— Charlie Heaton

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

— Tuppence Middleton

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

— Shirley Knight

People should start appreciating films where women are at the centre.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

— Bryan Callen

It's just always wonderful to have a director who encourages you so much to focus on the present.

— Charlie Plummer

It is cool to know that my films down south are being remade in Bollywood.

— Sameera Reddy

I wanted to belong to the films which were trying to say something.

— Deepti Naval

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

— Balachandra Menon

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

— Omar Epps

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

— Melanie Lynskey

Some do a business of Rs 200-400 crore. Then, there are some films that don't break even.

— Sanjay Mishra

It is very difficult to make films like 'Madras Cafe' in India, given the diverse nature of the country.

— Shoojit Sircar

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

— Jim Broadbent

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

— Ivan Tverdovsky

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

— Ed Harris