Cinema Quotes · Page 228

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

— Owen King

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

— Michael Haneke

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

— Roger Corman

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

— Cameron Diaz

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

— Mike Nichols

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

— Irrfan Khan

The audience is open to all kinds of films but the content has to be good.

— Bhushan Kumar

There are so many factors that one needs to keep in mind while composing for a film. Every movie is different and…

— Shankar Mahadevan

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater.…

— Alexander Koch

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a…

— Alain Resnais

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and…

— Barry Levinson

I think a lot of people misunderstand what I'm doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second…

— Oliver Stone

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going…

— Julie Christie

I've always been drawn to love stories. Growing up, I would devour films like 'Moonstruck,' 'Ghost,' 'Love and Basketball,' and 'Love, Jones,'…

— Wilson Cruz

I don't belong to the slums, but to play Naru in 'City Of Gold,' I had to live for months in a…

— Karan Patel

“From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces…

— Christian Braad Thomsen

I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I…

— Spike Jonze

Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me…

— Brad Pitt

I feel like coming from a film background does give me an advantage over others because access is the hardest part to…

— Ananya Panday

Samuel L. Jackson is truly a guru at what he does. Any man doing seven/eight films a year, you cant tell them…

— Busta Rhymes

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral;…

— Adam Rapp

I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as…

— Darren Aronofsky

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

— Rutina Wesley

I might sound pompous but I practically refuse at least a film or two a day.

— Arshad Warsi

I emphasize the technical aspects in all my films, not just Hindi.

— Priyadarshan

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

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

— David Fincher

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

— Penny Marshall

People are fed up of formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.

— Rishi Kapoor

The film 'Richard's Things' was my first time in front of a camera. It was scary but great fun.

— Amanda Redman

Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film.

— Anonymous

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

— Faye Dunaway

We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.

— Keren Woodward

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

— Leigh Whannell

Cinema is a platform open to all kind of views and it is very unrealistic to think that everyone can be happy.

— Amrita Rao

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

— Danny Boyle

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

— Sriram Raghavan