Cinema Quotes · Page 254

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

— Rob Reiner

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

— Mani Ratnam

I would rather talk about films that I did than the films that I didn't do.

— Huma Qureshi

As long as interesting work will find me, I will love to do more Bollywood films.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

Kannada films are my way of reconnecting with Karnataka, which is close to my heart.

— Atul Kulkarni

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

— David Leitch

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

— Marques Houston

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

— Tom Stoppard

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes…

— Gerard Depardieu

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action…

— Daniel Craig

Earlier, in Indian cinema, actors were given a certain amount of time to learn on the job. That is not possible anymore.

— Akshaye Khanna

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you…

— Mike Nichols

The movies had a huge impact on me. I loved going to the cinema, walking in at any point in the film…

— Maureen Lipman

Even the multiplex audience wants this flavour. No big-budget film can be a commercial hit until it does well both at multiplexes…

— Rohit Shetty

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good…

— Tiger Shroff

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and…

— Quentin Tarantino

Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.…

— Steven Knight

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working…

— Louis Theroux

The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment…

— Jean Baudrillard

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends…

— Michael Haneke

I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World.…

— Sigourney Weaver

It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem,…

— Conor McPherson

Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some…

— Paddy Considine

I watch German art house films and then I also work on Marvel movies. And I love both of them equally.

— Iman Vellani

I think seeing someone go from a YouTube series to a Hollywood film spurs people on.

— Joivan Wade

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.

— Anonymous

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

— Murray Horwitz

Being able to work on a film like 'Crazy Rich Asians' as your first role is phenomenal.

— Henry Golding

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

— James Caan

You know when I shoot with digital capture, I look for the mistake. When I shoot with film I embrace it.

— Seal

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

— Frank Capra

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

— Shelley Duvall

I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.

— Poonam Dhillon

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

— Jodie Foster

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

— Bennett Miller

I might have done around 100 films but still I have to be successful.

— Asrani

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

— David Copperfield