Cinema Quotes · Page 296

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

— Peter Shaffer

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.

— Seth Rogen

No matter how much buzz you create for a film, it's the content that finally gets judged.

— Akhil Akkineni

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

— Jason Reitman

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

— Billy Campbell

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and…

— Marina Abramovic

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film…

— Quentin Tarantino

It's nice to go skating in a parking lot and hang out with people who aren't talking about their next movie role.

— Tom Green

You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in…

— Taylor Sheridan

I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about…

— Niels Arden Oplev

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize…

— Laeta Kalogridis

Making a film is not about one person. It involves a whole lot of permutations and combinations. Everything has to fall in…

— Vivek Agnihotri

“Movies were movies, whether they were old or new. They always captivated me, pulled me into worlds where anything was possible. Worlds…

— Chelsea Sedoti

I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a…

— Takashi Miike

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about?…

— Dominic Monaghan

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of…

— J. J. Abrams

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful…

— Kevin Spacey

I was looking for something that, was different and that would challenge me in a different way, that was fun and people…

— Emilie De Ravin

I do remember when I first read the script of the 92 In The Shade. I was in the house at Nicholas…

— Margot Kidder

I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about…

— Adam Sandler

'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age…

— Barry Jenkins

Shoot The Piano Player' is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

— Sriram Raghavan

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

— Adam Arkin

I went from auditioning for roles to being offered films directly.

— Mrunal Thakur

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

— Ang Lee

There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.

— Ice T

There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

— Kajal Aggarwal

I knew that I wanted to be in parallel cinema and do meaningful films.

— Rohini Hattangadi

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

— Clint Eastwood

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

— Melanie Laurent

Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly.

— Celine Sciamma

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

— Alex Gibney

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

— Anthony Daniels

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

— Albert Brooks

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

— Charlton Heston