Cinema Quotes · Page 220

A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.

— Richard Linklater

I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.

— Martin Landau

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

— James Purefoy

The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.

— David Lowery

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

— Jonathan Frakes

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

— Daniel Radcliffe

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

After listening to the script of 'Sarileru Neekevvaru,' I felt it was an apt film for me to re-enter films.

— Vijayashanti

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we…

— Josh Hartnett

I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of 'Singham,' I saw an opportunity…

— Rohit Shetty

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work…

— Tom Stoppard

We should just focus on people getting into the phase of making films, and seeing how and where will they release later,…

— Nidhhi Agerwal

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as…

— Eriq La Salle

I began my career in Bollywood with 'Tere Naam' - it was a big project, as the film was directed by Satishji…

— Bhumika Chawla

Some of our favorite movies, like 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'Breaking Away,' were set in Indiana.

— Ross Duffer

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take…

— Sam Branson

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.…

— George Hickenlooper

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different…

— Bill Watterson

With action in Hollywood, a choreographer will be hired to design an amazing fight, with all these cool little narrative bits, such…

— Joey Ansah

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took…

— John Tiffany

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen…

— Alex O'Loughlin

Certainly with stage, as I'm remembering, you don't get to spend any time at home. With film, you might do three, four…

— Mark Bonnar

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because…

— Hugh Jackman

Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.…

— Steven Knight

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

— Mel Brooks

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

“To proceed, I imagine life as a film being screened by an incompetent projectionist.”

— Matthew Belmonte

My son had seen 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' but he wasn't happy about it because my father bullies me in the film.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.

— Alan Menken

What is a good script without a good director or a good director without a good actor?

— Lisa Haydon

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

— Ron Perlman

I have not done films that need me to be a superstar. I have done more off-beat cinema.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

— Mani Ratnam

Apart from music, T-Series is also producing a couple of films. We'll never be a film factory though.

— Bhushan Kumar

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

— Jeffrey Jones

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

— Edgar Ramirez

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

— Joseph Kosinski

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

— David Strathairn

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

— Pratyusha Banerjee

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

— Daisy Shah