Cinema Quotes · Page 258

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

— Stanley Kubrick

Going to the cinema with my Grandma does me the world of good.

— Leah Williamson

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

— Jamie Bell

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

— Gene Siskel

It's great working with directors and with somebody else's vision.

— James Iha

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

— Anonymous

I had my own documentary that I filmed in D.C., which is where I'm from.

— Lexi Underwood

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

— Irwin Winkler

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have…

— Vittorio De Sica

I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it.…

— Tom Cruise

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no…

— Spike Lee

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the…

— Shekhar Kapur

Some of the actors who came to cinema much later than me have tried their hand at direction. But, I don't intend…

— Vikram

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome…

— Hanan Kattan

I think I feel that way - that filmmaking is a responsibility, not only creatively but also financially in that it's a…

— David Nutter

Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish…

— R. Madhavan

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm…

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach

The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities.…

— Hasan Minhaj

There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a…

— Neill Blomkamp

Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but…

— Ray Metzker

My parents have let me do whatever I am interested in. Initially, they were apprehensive, but when they realised that filmmaking was…

— Karthik Subbaraj

If you start doing a television or a film job and you suddenly think it's a mistake - the director's horrible or…

— Lesley Sharp

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and…

— Don Ameche

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have…

— Stellan Skarsgard

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

— Jack Black

I do one film at a time. I can't wake up early. I can't do too many films.

— Diljit Dosanjh

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

— Paul Virilio

To get into the process of doing back-to-back films, it takes getting a little used to.

— Akshaye Khanna

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

— Volker Bertelmann

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

— Liev Schreiber

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

— Michael Pena

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

— Mia Wasikowska

I always liked films that are light and high on entertainment.

— Kashmira Shah

We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

— Shawn Wayans

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

— Ram Gopal Varma

When Tom Hanks is in a film, you know it's going to be good.

— Tom Glynn-Carney

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

— Manoj Bajpayee

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

— Takeshi Kitano

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

— Sriram Raghavan