Cinema Quotes · Page 281

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that…

— Ajay Devgan

I want to do only those films which come from a real place.

— Parvathy

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

— Diego Luna

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

— Tom Hooper

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

— Eric Stoltz

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with…

— Ben Kingsley

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

— Armand Assante

Films like 'Scarface', 'The Godfather', 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino' are something I can watch again and again and from anywhere. I love them…

— Zoya Akhtar

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

— Tom Ford

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have…

— Daniel Espinosa

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's…

— Laurence Sterne

We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed…

— Sarah Gavron

The Indian television industry has catapulted into a huge business. Films, however, have not lost one shred of charisma or commercial lucrativity.

— Sushmita Sen

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on…

— Jane Campion

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I…

— Steve Buscemi

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still…

— Lindsay Lohan

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental…

— Haley Bennett

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor…

— Shahid Kapoor

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to…

— Tom Hanks

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new…

— Lucy Walker

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of. When you're going to commit yourself to a…

— Laz Alonso

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality…

— Helen Mirren

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

— Tony Kushner

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

— Ken Adam

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

— John Frankenheimer

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

— Geena Davis

There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.

— Kyle Cassie

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

— Jared Harris

Let film-makers take a call about what films they want to do.

— Varun Dhawan

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

— Donnie Yen

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.

— Romy Schneider

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

— Bob Mondello

I have never understood why promotion is such a big thing in Hindi films.

— Rana Daggubati

I don't love big films for the sake of big films. It's not been a career drive to get to that point.

— Greig Fraser

My commitments are for Punjabi films - I want to work for the industry to uplift it.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

— Kay Kay Menon

“Film is that much powerful to show any negative fact through a very positive way what blows humans mind.”

— Maria Tusar

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

— Priyanka Chopra