Cinema Quotes · Page 280

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

— Faye Dunaway

Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money.

— Paul Morrissey

Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

— David Charvet

Having done both commercial and hard-hitting cinema, I can say none of them are easy.

— Taapsee Pannu

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

— Sriram Raghavan

Cinema is a platform open to all kind of views and it is very unrealistic to think that everyone can be happy.

— Amrita Rao

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

— Danny Boyle

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

— Francis Ford Coppola

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact,…

— Aparshakti Khurana

I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with…

— Steve Sabol

I have never bothered to find out who the other heroine is in my film at any stage of my career. Competition…

— Madhuri Dixit Nene

When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in…

— Peter Hedges

I'm playing my first urban character in 'Thirudan Police.' It's an important film because I'll be breaking the stereotype that I'm only…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

There was a Yugoslav film about partisans that I've done the music for, and then I've promised to score a French film…

— Mikis Theodorakis

It's whether they have a vision and whether they're able to communicate it. The best director is just someone who gets over-excited…

— Colin Firth

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to…

— Lee Unkrich

At the end of the process we called a market research company to find out whom the film was for or what…

— Alex Abreu

There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic…

— Nathan Lane

Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to…

— Rachel Nichols

Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old…

— Danny Glover

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were…

— Renny Harlin

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema.…

— Douglas Crimp

I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert…

— Fredrik Bond

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety…

— Sylvester Stallone

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

— Arbaaz Khan

I'd like to take my time to decide on a film before giving the nod.

— Regina Cassandra

I do like to have a clean slate, especially when you're in indie film.

— Riley Stearns

Nadunisi Naaigal' is new age Tamil cinema. I have tried to break the rules of regular cinema with this film.

— Gautham Menon

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

— Judi Dench

I am conscious that each film I do is in stark contrast to the earlier one.

— Catherine Tresa

I have done comedy on stage so when I got the chance to do it in cinema, I was extremely thrilled.

— Atul Kulkarni

If I trust a director, I don't even listen to the script.

— Jagapathi Babu

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

— Emmanuel Lubezki

Big-budget movies might have huge marketing budgets, but only some films have the content to stand out.

— Vetrimaaran

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

— David Lynch

“The worst film of a good director is better than the best film of a bad director.”

— Tom Roston

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

— George Cukor

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

— Paul Bettany

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I never hired a PR agency in my life, nor do I believe in promoting and marketing my films.

— Rekha