Cinema Quotes · Page 242

I want to do a 'Facejacker' film. I want to explore the characters more, maybe do a Terry Tibbs chat show.

— Kayvan Novak

I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

— Kevin Hart

Salaam Bombay' and 'Monsoon Wedding' are the two Mira Nair films I go back to.

— Rasika Dugal

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

— Gaby Hoffmann

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

— Ira Sachs

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

— Samantha Bee

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

— Jacob Tremblay

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to…

— Howard Shore

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide…

— Dallas Roberts

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

— Ira Sachs

When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated…

— Raoul Peck

Four or five years ago I decided to stop cursing the darkness - I had been complaining about movies and their content…

— Philip Anschutz

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of…

— Arne Glimcher

I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are…

— Shailene Woodley

The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me…

— Bennett Miller

I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to…

— Simon McBurney

The director of 500 Days of Summer is doing the Spider-Man movie. That's not necessarily the movies I want to make, but…

— Katie Aselton

I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a…

— Rob Zombie

It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because…

— Matt Dillon

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But…

— Alan Rickman

In Delhi, I became a serious stage actor. Then, luckily, the FTII acting course began, and I studied there, spent some time…

— Rajkummar Rao

Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have…

— Mark Duplass

I was as devoted to the film industry, as I am to the Bharatiya Janta Party.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

— Maria Thayer

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

— Shu Qi

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

If you do one big commercial film and it's a hit, everybody takes you for that particular kind of a role.

— Neena Gupta

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

— Jeanine Basinger

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

— Jaya Bachchan

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

— Shiri Appleby

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

— Clive Owen

Since I'm serious about a career in Hindi films, I'd have relocate to Mumbai.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

I don't classify film people into old and new gen and so get along with all.

— Joy Mathew

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

— Adam West

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

— Joan Chen

As an actor, I can't be constantly worrying about the commercial returns of my film.

— Anushka Shetty

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

— Joanna Lumley

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

— Shahrukh Khan