Cinema Quotes · Page 256

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

— Clive Owen

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

— Shiri Appleby

Since I'm serious about a career in Hindi films, I'd have relocate to Mumbai.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

I don't classify film people into old and new gen and so get along with all.

— Joy Mathew

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

— Shahrukh Khan

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my…

— Diane Lane

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

— Joanna Lumley

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

— Chadwick Boseman

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in…

— Alex Hammond

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists…

— George Pelecanos

Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When…

— Daniel Kaluuya

I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called "Skyscraper Souls"…

— Mike Royer

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's…

— Pete Docter

The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids…

— Angelina Jolie

Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my…

— Dario Argento

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But…

— Steven Sebring

It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're…

— Dan Mazer

I love acting. I think that's the best job in the world, but I don't really enjoy the career of it so…

— David Hayter

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption…

— Sean Penn

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new…

— Sergei Eisenstein

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never…

— Richard Linklater

Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need…

— Liv Ullmann

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that…

— Frederick Wiseman

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

— Sam Rockwell

I don't usually watch my films in theatres when they release.

— Diljit Dosanjh

The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream.

— Dan Smith

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

— George Clooney

You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.

— Amyra Dastur

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

— Dennis Hopper

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

— Nikita Dutta

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

— Agnes Varda

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

— Farhan Akhtar

Our responsibility is not just to make films for music but to make music for films.

— Bhushan Kumar

“End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island”

— C.B. Murphy

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

— Louis Leterrier

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

— Dane Cook

I'm dying to experiment with roles and touch new realms of cinema.

— Shriya Saran

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

— Terri Windling

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

— Cameron Diaz