Cinema Quotes · Page 216

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.

— Lucas Grabeel

I have always loved cinema more than the cricket. I don't think there is any harm in taking a different field.

— Angad Bedi

One of the first movies that I saw in the theatre was 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun.'

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I'm really thankful to god that I'm getting films and the kind of roles I would want to take up.

— Bhumika Chawla

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

— Jane Campion

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

— Randeep Hooda

When a film that we have worked on is successful and garners public appreciation, it makes us feel satisfied.

— Bhumika Chawla

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

— Ciaran Hinds

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking.…

— Eran Creevy

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon…

— Stanley Tucci

*at the cinema* Hey, what movie are you going to see? Snakes on a plane. Snakes on a plane? What's it about?…

— Ash

Prior to doing a 'Bond' film, I was a young actor doing classical theater and some BBC dramas. Then, suddenly, I was…

— Toby Stephens

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

— Pauline Kael

I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film…

— Letitia Wright

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on…

— Ruth Negga

I've never thought about doing international films. But if I get something exciting, I might take it up. Everything depends on what…

— Prabhas

When I was a kid I was a big fan of the Universal Monsters movies of the 1930's and the 1940's. I…

— Robbie Rist

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a…

— Mike Nichols

You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than…

— Pete Docter

I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it…

— Shane Black

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as…

— James Gray

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he…

— Satyajit Ray

It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to…

— George Stevens

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's…

— Agnes Varda

In films everybody gets typecast. You are locked into a certain formula, a certain look.

— Robert Beltran

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

— Lynne Ramsay

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.

— Esme Creed-Miles

“Maybe there was a time when you could make films that mattered, but now?”

— Hayao Miyazaki

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

— Charles Martin Smith

I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film.

— Kevin Bacon

I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.

— Lucy Dacus

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

— Karthi

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

— Fred Armisen

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

— Mads Mikkelsen

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

— Mora Stephens

I just want to do films that I like and to enjoy my work.

— Vivek Oberoi

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

— Erica Durance