Cinema Quotes · Page 231

It's better to be a star on TV and do selective work, rather than act in some stupid film.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

Compared to my previous films, 'Kaasi' is special. All credit goes to the director.

— Vijay Antony

I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.

— Yami Gautam

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

— Edward Norton

Watching films is my obsession and I am lucky that my obsession became my profession.

— Manoj Kumar

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

— Rob Marshall

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

— Danny Boyle

The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.

— Mahima Chaudhry

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely…

— J. G. Ballard

I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to…

— George A. Romero

It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or…

— Radha Ravi

Working on 'Westworld' has been an incredible experience in learning to make something with the scope of a feature on a TV…

— Lisa Joy

When someone like me takes a sabbatical, it leads to a few happy realisations. It was only when I was away that…

— Akshaye Khanna

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a…

— Roger Ross Williams

“Originally, the Gossip Girl series of books was going to be turned into a single feature film. Starring Lindsay Lohan.”

— Jack Goldstein

I loved working with Stephen Frears. He's a really fantastic director. He knows what he wants and how to get it.

— Anjelica Huston

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot…

— Rithy Panh

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art,…

— Bill Paxton

Come to think of it, some of the most special films in my career were 'City Of Life' and 'Happy New Year.'…

— Sonu Sood

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long…

— Steve Burns

Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator,…

— Adrian Pasdar

The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a…

— Alison Pill

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio…

— James Gray

My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had…

— Robert Lepage

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

— Peter Greenaway

Whenever I'm offered a film, I think of a Friday and ask myself if I would go and watch that film or…

— Sana Khan

Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

— Laura Dern

I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into…

— Josh Helman

Malayalam cinema has given me the biggest break and has been like a school for me on how to perform.

— Meghana Raj

Even though my family was accepting of an unusual career, cinema, my journey in it has still been a tough one.

— Nithya Menen

I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.

— Elijah Wood

As a family, we ensure we sit together and listen to scripts. But the choice of doing a film is entirely mine.

— Meghana Raj

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

— Deepa Mehta

I would like to do more projects involving artists from film, fashion and music. That's the spark for me.

— Sergei Polunin

Yes, I did some horrible films before but I don't have any regrets. It's a process of learning.

— Arshad Warsi

Personally, I always wanted to do a rom-com or an action film.

— Sunny Singh

We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed.

— Til Schweiger

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at…

— Griffin Dunne

It is very easy to make an art film. They are an exercise in self-deception.

— Joy Mathew

The only challenge I faced in the beginning was that no one believed I could seriously see a film through.

— Dia Mirza