Cinema Quotes · Page 225

I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

— Vera Farmiga

I don't make films for everybody; if I did that it would be blandness beyond belief.

— Lynne Ramsay

I have nothing against commercial cinema, but I don't have the intelligence to project them.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

— Ryan Phillippe

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

— Ken Loach

I would say the biggest challenge on any film is always time.

— Riley Stearns

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

— Thomas Langmann

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the…

— Carey Mulligan

I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

— Vin Diesel

I feel that cinema can't change society or bring a revolution. I'm also not sure of cinema as a medium of education.…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Every time I make a "Mission" movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, "Well, now what? What's…

— Tom Cruise

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was…

— Johnny Weissmuller

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

— John Abraham

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

— Richard McCabe

“Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's…

— Eliza Coupe

Australia, most of the filmmakers there write a film and they direct it. There's a lot of writer/directors there, because nobody wants…

— Leigh Whannell

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with…

— Alden Ehrenreich

“A black Carrera came into the driveway and stopped behind the limo. This must be the director. They guy knew cars, alright.…

— Eve Montelibano

I'm not as savvy and knowledgable about all of the directors that are out there, but as a person, I'm really open-minded…

— Millicent Simmonds

I can't possibly be objective about myself. I can look at my other colleagues work, and they are all tremendous, really. To…

— Goran Kostic

If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement.…

— Alex Stapleton

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

— Nadine Labaki

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

— Armand Assante

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

— John Frankenheimer

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

— Tony Kushner

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

— Ken Adam

Let film-makers take a call about what films they want to do.

— Varun Dhawan

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.

— Romy Schneider

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

— Donnie Yen

There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.

— Kyle Cassie

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

— Geena Davis

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

— Jared Harris

I have never understood why promotion is such a big thing in Hindi films.

— Rana Daggubati

I don't love big films for the sake of big films. It's not been a career drive to get to that point.

— Greig Fraser

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

— Bob Mondello

My commitments are for Punjabi films - I want to work for the industry to uplift it.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi