Cinema Quotes · Page 246

With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.

— Marc Platt

Had I been to Uttarakhand in the '80s and '90s, surely I would have filmed many scenes of my films here.

— Tinnu Anand

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

— Thalia

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

— Takashi Miike

When you make a film, you will either make money or won't.

— Parineeti Chopra

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

— Richard Linklater

I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

— Malin Akerman

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

— Mike Myers

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make…

— David O. Russell

The kind of films that are made depends on the kind of films that are becoming hits. That's why I always say…

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can…

— Jon Turteltaub

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you…

— Matthew Modine

[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of…

— Steven Knight

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

— Naomie Harris

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I…

— Amy Smart

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did…

— Anonymous

When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small…

— Jafar Panahi

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And…

— Sandra Bullock

Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I…

— Tom Hanks

A lot of independent films try to pull off a 14-day shooting schedule, which I think is ridiculous. No matter how big…

— Sean Baker

For an actor who hadn't done too much work, who's aspiring to be big, when you get to know you're in a…

— Rohit Saraf

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep…

— Daphne du Maurier

I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really…

— Mamie Gummer

My goal is that my films should at least match up to my previous films if not be more.

— Shefali Shah

I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.

— Tony Todd

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

— Laura Dern

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

— Stellan Skarsgard

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard

I always make sure my film benefits my producer and earns him a profit.

— Anil Ravipudi

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Being on a film set, it's mind-numbing. It's like torture.

— Hugh Grant

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to…

— Ryan Gosling

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

— Aparshakti Khurana

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

— Katie Aselton

Be it television or film, or theatre, I can modify myself, develop any character and slip into any role.

— Rohini Hattangadi

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that…

— David Lynch

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

— Tamannaah