Cinema Quotes · Page 275

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

— Abbie Cornish

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

— Ridley Scott

There are no hero-heroine films any more. They are more character-oriented.

— Vatsal Sheth

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

— Michael Snow

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

— Ken Burns

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.

— Nina Jacobson

I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.

— Allu Arjun

I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable.

— Rza

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you…

— Jacques Rivette

Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg…

— Holly Hunter

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in,…

— David Prowse

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

— Candice Patton

I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a legend. Then…

— Ali Fazal

I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the…

— David Zucker

Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making…

— Ingmar Bergman

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting…

— Julie Delpy

I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me…

— Bennett Miller

“ROBERT DAVI They tried to get me in Die Hard 2 with [director] Renny Harlin. Joel would say, “C’mon, put ’im in…

— Brian Abrams

Alec Guinness classed up that movie [Star Wars]. Nobody else in that movie knew how to act. Nobody else had a clue…

— David Crosby

It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because…

— Matt Dillon

The director of 500 Days of Summer is doing the Spider-Man movie. That's not necessarily the movies I want to make, but…

— Katie Aselton

I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a…

— Rob Zombie

Who would want to do a bad film? It's just that not all films work in my favour, and I'm fine with…

— Karthi

I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

— George A. Romero

Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

— Leland Orser

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

— Esha Gupta

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

— Michel Hazanavicius

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Maybe my films are not perfect - maybe a machine could do that, but that's not what I'm after.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

— Gillian Flynn

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

— Ryan Phillippe

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

— Ken Loach

I have nothing against commercial cinema, but I don't have the intelligence to project them.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I would say the biggest challenge on any film is always time.

— Riley Stearns

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

— Yorgos Lanthimos