Cinema Quotes · Page 279

To call doing films upgrade from TV wouldn't be right because TV is huge too.

— Kiku Sharda

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

— Christopher McQuarrie

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

— Rod Lurie

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

— Owen King

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

— Michael Haneke

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

— Roger Corman

The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me.…

— Helmut Newton

On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the…

— Kajal Aggarwal

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind…

— Christopher Lee

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know…

— Dhani Harrison

I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated…

— Sonam Kapoor

All I care about is that the audience should remember me for the character I play. I want to be part of…

— Jisshu Sengupta

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very…

— Frederick Lenz

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really…

— John Waters

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I…

— Harmony Korine

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians.…

— Dennis Hopper

What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship…

— Grant Heslov

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I…

— Fede Alvarez

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than…

— Daniel Handler

I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something…

— Wyatt Cenac

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

— Cameron Diaz

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

— Irrfan Khan

The audience is open to all kinds of films but the content has to be good.

— Bhushan Kumar

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

— Mike Nichols

I might sound pompous but I practically refuse at least a film or two a day.

— Arshad Warsi

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

I emphasize the technical aspects in all my films, not just Hindi.

— Priyadarshan

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

— Rutina Wesley

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

— Penny Marshall

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

— David Fincher

People are fed up of formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.

— Rishi Kapoor

The film 'Richard's Things' was my first time in front of a camera. It was scary but great fun.

— Amanda Redman

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

— Leigh Whannell

We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.

— Keren Woodward

Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film.

— Anonymous