Cinema Quotes · Page 263

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

— Joseph Kosinski

I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.

— Anoushka Shankar

I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.

— Claire Denis

We tend to say that some films are made for multiplex audience and some for single-screen theatres.

— Vicky Kaushal

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

— Steve Antin

“Expanded cinema isn't a movie at all: like life it's a process of becoming.”

— Gene Youngblood

As long as we do good films that people connect with, they will work.

— Nithiin

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

— Guillaume Canet

I feel that I have not got my due in films. However, I did a lot of good work on television and…

— Neena Gupta

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances,…

— Rajkumar Hirani

Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I'm happy doing one…

— Dia Mirza

You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring…

— Dolph Lundgren

I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the…

— The Great Khali

I have been hooked to cinema since childhood. I am like a typical Indian villager who had no other source of entertainment…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

When it comes to viewer's choice, each film counts. Moreover, it's important to enjoy the work that I do. Thus, it is…

— Amrita Rao

I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A…

— Laura Dern

Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If…

— Ben Hecht

I love independent films. I love going to see them. I love being a part of them because it kind of feels…

— Juno Temple

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot…

— Rithy Panh

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some…

— Paddy Considine

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art,…

— Bill Paxton

Come to think of it, some of the most special films in my career were 'City Of Life' and 'Happy New Year.'…

— Sonu Sood

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long…

— Steve Burns

Toy Story One' and 'Three' are among the best films ever made.

— Paul Whitehouse

“For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.”

— Jerry White

Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.

— Vanessa Kirby

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

— Takashi Miike

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

— Thalia

With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.

— Marc Platt

Had I been to Uttarakhand in the '80s and '90s, surely I would have filmed many scenes of my films here.

— Tinnu Anand

When you make a film, you will either make money or won't.

— Parineeti Chopra

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

— Mike Myers

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

— Laura Dern

I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.

— Tony Todd

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

— Stellan Skarsgard

My goal is that my films should at least match up to my previous films if not be more.

— Shefali Shah

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

— Richard Linklater

I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

— Malin Akerman

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard