Cinema Quotes · Page 289

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

— Gloria Stuart

Commerce is in no one's hand and that should not be the only reason to make a film ever.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the…

— Brian Helgeland

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

— Alan Parker

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

— Ludivine Sagnier

I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

— Emir Kusturica

I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

— Marco Bizzarri

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about…

— Jay Roach

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

The day Bengali cinema lost touch with literature and started aping the south, the middle class audience stopped going to the cinema…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I strongly believe in fairytales, they help me face the tragedies of life. Making films is an answer to the world you…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I do think people who have really inspired me in cinema have been fearless and uncompromising auteurs, people whose vision I like…

— RaMell Ross

In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three…

— Phyllida Lloyd

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of…

— Lee Grant

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a…

— Christian Slater

The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I…

— Francois Ozon

When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why…

— Steven Knight

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a…

— Maz Jobrani

I didn't want to make Young and Beautiful as very dramatic movie . In a certain way, I wanted to do a…

— Francois Ozon

I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've…

— Stephen Frears

I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it's true for…

— Christoph Waltz

“When I was a kid I adored Katharine Hepburn, especially when she played Jo, the ballsy sister in Little Women. All the…

— Ray Hagen

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we…

— David Lynch

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

— Om Puri

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

— David Hemmings

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

— Errol Morris

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

— Claude Lelouch

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

— Abel Ferrara

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

— Oskar Werner

When people ask me to describe my journey in Hindi cinema post-'Barfi!' I actually don't know what to say.

— Ileana D'Cruz

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and…

— David Lynch

Back in the management office working on edits with renowned film editor, Sarah Flack. Billy's got a drum...

— Medeski Martin And Wood

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

— Nick Cave

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

— Vsevolod Pudovkin

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

— Jack Nicholson

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long…

— Christopher Nolan

It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.

— Ashton Sanders

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

— Jean-Pierre Melville

I sign films that have significance for my characters or are big entertainers.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman