Cinema Quotes · Page 238

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

— Rachel Weisz

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

— Mia Wasikowska

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

— Nan Goldin

I didn't have any godfather in the industry and had to prove myself with each film.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

— Tim Heidecker

Films with fresh themes and able directors are a pleasure to associate yourself with.

— Priyamani

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

— Steve Guttenberg

I choose films preferably based on content, and then I see the kind of team I have to work with.

— Fawad Khan

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was…

— Javier Camara

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up…

— Andre Øvredal

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and…

— Nicolas Cage

The comedy I do on TV came from me being at art school and seeing Gilbert and George films, thinking they were…

— Vic Reeves

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part…

— Fernando Perez

I feel that I'm a perpetual struggler. I always keep struggling to get certain roles, and when I get them, I struggle…

— Taapsee Pannu

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality…

— Helen Mirren

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make…

— Alexandra Cassavetes

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a…

— Dave McKean

I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many…

— Sergio Leone

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people…

— John Berger

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in…

— John Hyams

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started…

— Guillermo del Toro

In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out…

— Christopher Young

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

— Amber Heard

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'd like to act in Punjabi films and do some great roles instead of just dance sequences.

— Nora Fatehi

I'm a walk-on guy. When the director says, 'Action,' I'm on.

— Kelsey Grammer

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

— Orson Welles

Cinema is diversifying; there's room for every kind of cinema today.

— Bobby Deol

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

— Henry Selick

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

— Mel Gibson

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

— Adrian Pasdar

I would love to do realistic films that are entertaining.

— Tamannaah

In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we…

— Florence Pugh

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.

— Joan Chen

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

— Holly Hunter

I don't really make a lot of money from the films that I make.

— Stacy Martin