Cinema Quotes · Page 262

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

— Martin Parr

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

— Elizabeth Olsen

If you have a smaller role, but if you work with a great director, they make it unforgettable.

— Udo Kier

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

— Farah Khan

There was a time when I used to enter the film studios in the morning and come out only at night.

— Jeetendra

A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.

— Nani

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

— Alicia Silverstone

Warhol wanted to put me in a film, but my mother wouldn't let me.

— Patti D'Arbanville

I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.

— Pierce Brosnan

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking.…

— Mads Mikkelsen

I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those…

— Laura Prepon

The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a…

— Aml Ameen

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on…

— Haylie Duff

Sammy Davis Jr. was a real movie buff who loved nothing better than being around a film studio - whether he was…

— Roger Moore

It is very tough to make a short film. It's like writing a short story, which is tougher than writing a novel.…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found…

— Meera Menon

You had to knock the doors of the great directors and producers; of course I needed the work and was desperate for…

— Anu Malik

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is…

— Hugh Jackman

Once I wanted to get into films, I took my time about it because when I first got to Bombay, I gave…

— Kalki Koechlin

Normally I'm watching people become actors in the process of making the film. It's very important you have a lot of respect…

— Celine Sciamma

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set,…

— Fahadh Faasil

We've got the prettiest girls in the world here in Los Angeles and there's a great music scene. And I learned what…

— John Carpenter

I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of…

— Luca Guadagnino

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

— Ajay Devgan

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.

— Laszlo Nemes

“It’s difficult to really like a film that you didn’t like making.”

— Tuesday Weld

It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

— Tahar Rahim

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.

— William Forsythe

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

You have to follow your gut and believe in your film. Nothing else matters.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

— Colleen Ballinger

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

— Felicity Jones

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

— Ari Aster

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.

— Phillip Noyce

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

— Martin Scorsese

I've got to make the movies that I would want to go see.

— Paul Walter Hauser

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

— Tom Wilkinson

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

— Guy Ritchie