Cinema Quotes · Page 276

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

— Vera Farmiga

I don't make films for everybody; if I did that it would be blandness beyond belief.

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

— Nadine Labaki

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

— Thomas Langmann

After listening to the script of 'Sarileru Neekevvaru,' I felt it was an apt film for me to re-enter films.

— Vijayashanti

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

— Mel Brooks

My son had seen 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' but he wasn't happy about it because my father bullies me in the film.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

When I meet parents in my children's school, they say there aren't good films for kids to watch. I wonder about the…

— Farah Khan

Rather than doing a hero-oriented film, I love being a part multi-starrer film, because such films always strike a chord with audience.

— Biju Menon

When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a…

— Melanie Laurent

I definitely used to dream of sitting in the movie theatre watching the 'Star Wars' credits come up knowing I was part…

— Jack Reynor

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral…

— James Cameron

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors,…

— Emmanuelle Beart

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

— David Mamet

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a…

— Arik Roper

I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to…

— Simon McBurney

Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have…

— Mark Duplass

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But…

— Alan Rickman

In Delhi, I became a serious stage actor. Then, luckily, the FTII acting course began, and I studied there, spent some time…

— Rajkummar Rao

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the…

— Tom Skerritt

When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know,…

— Quentin Tarantino

I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of…

— Brandon Lee

I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

“To proceed, I imagine life as a film being screened by an incompetent projectionist.”

— Matthew Belmonte

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.

— Alan Menken

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

— Mani Ratnam

Apart from music, T-Series is also producing a couple of films. We'll never be a film factory though.

— Bhushan Kumar

What is a good script without a good director or a good director without a good actor?

— Lisa Haydon

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

— Ron Perlman

I have not done films that need me to be a superstar. I have done more off-beat cinema.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

— Daisy Shah

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

— David Strathairn

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

— Jeffrey Jones

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

— Edgar Ramirez

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

— Joseph Kosinski

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

— Pratyusha Banerjee

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog