Cinema Quotes · Page 301

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

— Johann Johannsson

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

— Paul Dano

I want to do one or two commercial films, but also want to do off-beat movies.

— Amyra Dastur

I think back to back romantic comedies are good for black film.

— Taye Diggs

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

— George Clooney

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

— Dane Cook

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

— Orson Welles

I think listening to the director is the number one strength an actor should have.

— Varun Dhawan

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only…

— Bruce Glover

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look…

— Otto Preminger

I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's…

— Harold Pinter

The people of U.P. are very simple and grounded. They take pleasure in admiring arts and cinema. This is why it is…

— Hiten Tejwani

On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me…

— Samuel Larsen

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to…

— Harrison Ford

If you look at my career, I have already proved that after a big action film like 'Chatrapati,' I could do a…

— Prabhas

TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and…

— Cameron Crowe

When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with…

— Lenny Kravitz

I think because audiences are a little bit sick of the same thing over and over, I think it's opening the channel…

— Melissa Barrera

Daring to make films of any kind and thus invite the possibility of ridicule was an internal battle of mine for many…

— Justin Simien

With Halloween, the director was this genius wonder boy who was the writer, director, producer, along with his girlfriend. They were this…

— P. J. Soles

I was in film school, we were making a movie, and the teacher told me 'You cannot make movies like this.' I…

— Darby Allin

The cool thing about comic books and prose is that if a reader gets confused on page 8, they can backtrack. With…

— Chris Claremont

You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the…

— Rod Serling

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

— Viola Davis

Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them.

— Ethan Coen

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

— Julie Christie

How can anyone say no to be a part in a film like 'Ramanujan?'

— Suhasini Maniratnam

There are very few horror films that I think are worth their salt.

— George A. Romero

The success of a film is always a combination of many people's efforts.

— Mammootty

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

— Richard Linklater

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

— Alfred Hitchcock

There are so many directors, young and old, around - all doing their thing and struggling.

— Noma Dumezweni

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

— Gene Wilder

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

— Elizabeth Banks

'Son Chiriya' is a special film with lovely co-stars and a sorted out director.

— Bhumi Pednekar

I'm either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.

— Rakul Preet Singh

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

— Noah Baumbach

In director V K Prakash's 'Poppins,' I'll reprise the same role I did in its Kannada version.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

— Ari Aster