Cinema Quotes · Page 297

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

— Jan Koum

I don't make movies for pseudo-intellectuals. I don't want them to watch my films.

— Priyadarshan

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

— Om Puri

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

— John Berger

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

— Anurag Kashyap

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

— Jason Clarke

There is always a hit and a flop, it's part of working in the film industry.

— Randhir Kapoor

I am a teetotaler but I have to say that the film business is intoxicating.

— Bhushan Kumar

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of…

— Bahman Ghobadi

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the…

— George Lucas

I have always tried to make life interesting for myself by doing different roles that connect mainstream cinema with its offbeat counterpart.

— Urmila Matondkar

The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Though I have done films like 'Siruthai' with larger-than-life characters, I have more of a guy-next-door image.

— Karthi

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with…

— Norman Jewison

There are a lot of directors who really need the assistance of an actor and they need the actor to come up…

— Zayed Khan

Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space - that's really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get…

— Leigh Whannell

As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job…

— George Clooney

We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw…

— Al Pacino

My story is similar to every ordinary Indian boy's tale. My father wanted me to become an engineer or a professional but…

— Abhishek Banerjee

The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Um, yeah, it's one of the things that you kind of have to accept at the very beginning, like I'm not going…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it…

— Woody Allen

Presenting a film is also about reaching the end of a very long journey, so you also arrive tired, but you really…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Salman Khan did not help me get movie offers. What rubbish! Will any producer take a risk of millions of rupees at…

— Katrina Kaif

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Initially, I used to say yes to any film without giving it a second thought, which I shouldn't have done.

— Aditya Pancholi

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

— Ray Harryhausen

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Apocalyptic movies tend to thrive when people are concerned about the state of the world.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

— Phyllida Lloyd

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

— Eli Roth

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

— Cole Hauser

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

— Tamannaah

I used to have worries about my film releases and I used to pay money just to get them released.

— Jagapathi Babu

I grew up on R-rated action films, and you didn't blink.

— Rob Liefeld

How you communicate while criticising a film is important. Don't pass any hurtful remarks.

— Rajinikanth

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

— David Oyelowo

Making a movie is not easy, not something you do for fun. To me at least.

— RaMell Ross

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

— Greg Berlanti

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

— Danger Mouse