Cinema Quotes · Page 249

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

— Bruce Beresford

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

— Steven Soderbergh

Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.

— Parineeti Chopra

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

— Debbie Reynolds

I have shot extensively in Kerala for various films and always loved the experience.

— Atul Kulkarni

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing…

— John Krokidas

I may play a baddie, but I make sure I don't sign bad films.

— Mukul Dev

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

— Siddharth Shukla

Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly…

— Todd Haynes

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

— Mike Birbiglia

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

— Peter Hedges

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

— Danny Boyle

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call…

— Tommy Wiseau

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms…

— Cary Fukunaga

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to…

— Valeria Golino

I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why…

— Quentin Tarantino

I feel that the director's job is special because you're there the whole time while people come and go. You start alone…

— Eva Victor

Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're…

— Henry Hopper

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a…

— Suzanne Keene

The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I…

— Ty Burrell

At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming…

— Michael Imperioli

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of…

— Rosamund Pike

On some level, some of the challenges end up being similar, which is when you have a very emotional scene to shoot.…

— Miriam Shor

“[ On his Emmy win ] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.”

— Martin Freeman

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

— Ellen Burstyn

I belong to the film industry and it's the only industry that has no corruption.

— Akshaye Khanna

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

— Dean Devlin

When Ron Howard rings you up and says, 'I'd like you to do my film,' you do it.

— Tom Holland

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

— Gaspard Ulliel

'ADHM' is a very contemporary kind of film. Ranbir Kapoor has performed very well.

— Urvashi Rautela

When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.

— Thomas Middleditch

Any film I make, my intention is always to make people like it.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Some films survive long in theatres, and some stay longer in people's minds.

— Rajiv Menon

Veer Zaara' changed people's outlook towards me. It was my first so-called commercial film.

— Divya Dutta

I have seen many times in 100 Crs films there is no content, in short only money is wasted.

— Rhea Chakraborty

Working with Sylvester Stallone is beyond a 'pinch yourself' moment. I remember growing up watching his films.

— Jason Statham

“Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.”

— Jonathan Lethem

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

— Naga Chaitanya