Cinema Quotes · Page 244

The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.

— Udo Kier

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

— Mike Mills

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

— Peter Jackson

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

— Mike Lookinland

'Pilla Zamindar' is a fun film. I enjoyed working in it.

— Nani

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

— Vanessa Paradis

The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.

— Ray Milland

When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.

— Diego Luna

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot."…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

It's the Punjabi film industry that sustained me and my family for eight years. It is because of my work in Punjabi…

— Raza Murad

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It…

— Matt Smith

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Abhishek Chaubey has been in my bucket list for a long time. When he approached me, I thought it's for a film…

— Bhumi Pednekar

I didn't start out my directorial career with a dance film, as I knew people thought a choreographer will easily make a…

— Remo D'Souza

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to…

— Jim Brown

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after…

— Dolph Lundgren

You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting…

— Lola Kirke

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several…

— Sharon Lawrence

At one stage of my film career, between 2007 and 2010, I had taken up many projects where I played the role…

— Biju Menon

After 'Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai,' 'Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hai' and 'Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai,' my presence as a director…

— Satish Kaushik

Well consciously what we were doing when making the film was, we really wanted to make sure it was a film about…

— Bryan Burk

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings…

— Mike Birbiglia

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

— John Milius

After doing a film like 'Dangal,' people would assume things are easy for me.

— Sanya Malhotra

Being in a Marvel film is the pinnacle of secrecy training.

— Sterling K. Brown

I don't come from a film background. so I am grateful to everyone who loves my work.

— Sidharth Malhotra

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

— Elizabeth Olsen

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

— Martin Parr

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show…

— Rick Heinrichs

Warhol wanted to put me in a film, but my mother wouldn't let me.

— Patti D'Arbanville

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

— Ajay Devgan

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

— Farah Khan

If you have a smaller role, but if you work with a great director, they make it unforgettable.

— Udo Kier

There was a time when I used to enter the film studios in the morning and come out only at night.

— Jeetendra

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

— Alicia Silverstone

A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.

— Nani

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.

— William Forsythe

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

— Oneohtrix Point Never