Cinema Quotes · Page 219

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed…

— Frank Darabont

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.

— Paula Abdul

I want everyone to go back home feeling happy after watching all my films.

— Varun Dhawan

I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make…

— Marjane Satrapi

To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.

— Yvette Mimieux

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

— Christopher Nolan

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

— Laurie Metcalf

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once…

— Isabella Rossellini

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's…

— Anonymous

“The past is unclear. It's as if there is a film over those early years. I can't even be sure that the…

— Raymond Carver

Frankly, you cannot match the action in a Bond or a Bourne film. Forget budgets, it needs an expertise which I probably…

— Sriram Raghavan

The problem is I have this thing when I do a film, I really want to give all of myself to it.…

— Gareth Evans

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

— Chris Messina

When it came to the 'Raid' films, everything is adrenalized, crowd-pleasing. It's a roller coaster. You can watch an action scene unfold…

— Gareth Evans

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way…

— Al Pacino

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher…

— Charlize Theron

“For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true…

— Devin C. Griffiths

At 17, I went to an engineering college, the entire reading was about fluid mechanics and steam engines and what not, so…

— Anubhav Sinha

I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a…

— Ric Roman Waugh

Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts…

— Nathaniel Dorsky

I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It…

— Garry Marshall

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has…

— John Lasseter

Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt…

— Simon Pegg

I don't think I have a definitive film. Such a thing is not possible for me.

— Jesus Franco

Whatever they are showing in the film 'Manikarnika,' I feel I was like that.

— Jaya Prada

I have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

— Payal Rohatgi

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

— John Lasseter

For me Trichy is a place which appreciates cinema and the audiences here are dedicated to it.

— Samuthirakani

Films are my passion. I am here to act and entertain masses.

— Mumtaj

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

— Katherine Dunn

I will only do a Bollywood film if I am offered the main lead role.

— Priyamani

I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

— Nick Love

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

— Alexander Ludwig

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

— Christopher Nolan

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

— Serge Daney

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

— David Lynch

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

— David Fincher

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

— Mary Schmich