Cinema Quotes · Page 222

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

— Akhil Akkineni

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

— Miguel Gomes

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

— Mithun Chakraborty

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

— D. B. Sweeney

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

— James Agate

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

— Francois Truffaut

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema…

— Pamela Yates

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

— Jane Levy

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian.…

— James Cromwell

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the…

— Steven Moffat

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best.…

— Valeria Golino

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to…

— Charles Keating

I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I…

— Jane Goldman

On Friday, I tend to wrap up at about 5.30pm after a very hectic week at work. I love nothing better than…

— Rachel Khoo

I am very critical! I hate watching myself but I know I have to because I'm going to be asked so I…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People—particularly older ones—still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even…

— Arthur C. Clarke

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character,…

— Eva Green

The true marker of success is when the creative minds behind a film can sit down and feel that they have succeeded…

— Aamir Khan

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have…

— Andrew Haigh

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I was shooting for 'Maaya' when I got a call from John Abraham's office. They told me about the film and asked…

— Harshvardhan Rane

Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your…

— Martin Freeman

People connect with my films because they are honest and simple.

— Sudeep

I want to do films like 'As Good as it Gets' or 'Analyze This.'

— Nana Patekar

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

— Karen Allen

Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

— Ali Fazal

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

— Josh Fox

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

— Casper Van Dien

I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We need to develop artists who are not just scoring films. I'm hoping 'Gully Boy' can help with that.

— Zoya Akhtar

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.

— Saqib Saleem

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

— Cliff Robertson

The way cinema has grown I think, doesn't matter if its Hindi or South. People watch all languages.

— Sonu Sood

That's filming. You pitch up, give your all, and see what the outcome is.

— Wade Eastwood

I always tell people, 'If you say you don't like horror, it just means that you haven't found the right movie.'

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

— Daniel Radcliffe

The reason I am in cinema is because of the passion I have for cinema.

— Neha Sharma

To call doing films upgrade from TV wouldn't be right because TV is huge too.

— Kiku Sharda