Cinema Quotes · Page 235

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

— Carter Burwell

I'm here to be an actor who wants to be remembered for her roles and her films rather than her looks.

— Alia Bhatt

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

— Ira Sachs

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

— Greg Sestero

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

— Clint Eastwood

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

— Marti Noxon

Lack of dignity and equal opportunity at workplace for women in cinema is a truth that needs role reversal.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...

— Mick LaSalle

If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later…

— Gary Cole

My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and…

— Michel Ocelot

It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director…

— Kevin Williamson

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We…

— Dean Cain

I have directed Amitabh in four films - 'Kaalia,' 'Shahenshah,' 'Main Azad Hoon' and 'Major Saab' - and we have always been…

— Tinnu Anand

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie…

— Victor Koo

In a way, I love being inspired by the production quality that TV and film have got - there's no question about…

— Peter Molyneux

I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I…

— Jennifer Lawrence

A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to…

— Taika Waititi

You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite…

— Christopher Nolan

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians.…

— Dennis Hopper

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I…

— Fede Alvarez

What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship…

— Grant Heslov

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I…

— Harmony Korine

I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really…

— John Waters

I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something…

— Wyatt Cenac

You can't work on a film without being changed in some way.

— Ted McGinley

People are waiting for good movies and they are ready to accept them.

— Tanikella Bharani

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

— Dirk Benedict

When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.

— Philippe Falardeau

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

— Diane Lane

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

— James Corden

When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.

— Jørgen Leth

I've met people from across the spectrum and I think film should be the same.

— Adam Pearson

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

— David Hockney

I kind of don't like doing film commentaries because I think they're kind of weird.

— Peter Segal

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

— Dave McCary

I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema.

— Kimberley Nixon

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

— Jean Dujardin

If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.

— Ali

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

— Taika Waititi

When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release.

— Shoojit Sircar