Cinema Quotes · Page 248

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

— John Rhys-Davies

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

— Donnie Yen

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my…

— Roopa Ganguly

It was a great experience to work with director A. L. Vijay.

— Keerthy Suresh

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

— Guy Pearce

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

— James Iha

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

— Boyd Holbrook

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle.

— Takashi Miike

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has…

— Salman Rushdie

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help…

— Randeep Hooda

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team,…

— Nick Park

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid,…

— Ernst Lubitsch

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical…

— Michael Gambon

Nobodys ever challenged me and tapped into what I can do. I aint played a villain which I believe I can do…

— Martin Lawrence

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film…

— Alfred Hitchcock

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot…

— Alex Stapleton

Of course, there are days when you remember that what if I had continued irrespective of hits or flops, maybe I would…

— Rahul Roy

The first movie I was when I was around 16 or 17. It was a hard-core drama, artistic movie. I had never…

— Shira Haas

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a…

— Grant Heslov

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with…

— Peter Mullan

I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little…

— Ridley Scott

Some theatres back home used to screen arthouse films by Adoor and Shyam Benegal, and week-long festivals of films from France, Germany…

— Manivannan

I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is…

— Sally Hawkins

You know, we’re not on stage, we’re not doing a play, so we don’t have a relationship with the audience but going…

— Virginia Madsen

I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.

— Akshaye Khanna

Kaaka Muttai' is the expression of an insider. It is a film about globalisation and its effects.

— Vetrimaaran

Directing a film was a good education. I learned how disgusting actors are.

— Sandra Bullock

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

— Pam Grier

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.

— Robbie Coltrane

I'm here in Hollywood to do film and television and make enough money to get my kids through college.

— Dakin Matthews

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

— Taika Waititi

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

— Edward Norton

Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.

— Esha Gupta

Bhojpuri film industry is very small - precisely eight people govern the whole industry and I am one of them.

— Nagma

I kind of live under a rock, to be honest. I very much stay in my little film world.

— Mischa Barton

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

— Frank Darabont

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

— Richard Jenkins

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

— Doug Liman

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

— Paul Dano