Cinema Quotes · Page 313

I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.

— Chandra Wilson

As directors, we get very stuck on the stories we want to tell.

— Anna Boden

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

— Frances McDormand

A film actress that I really admire and look up to is Jessica Lange.

— Shanna Moakler

Of course, all my films are high on comedy, but I ensure there's something for the audience to take back home.

— M. S. Narayana

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

— Vera Farmiga

Every actor has the desire to do films, but I never had that approach.

— Kiku Sharda

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

— Stan Wawrinka

I thought that I should do Marathi cinema as I knew that there I would be able to explore different subjects. But…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

If you think about TV series, we make 16 one-hour movies a season. You don't get any opportunity like that in movies.…

— Jeffrey Donovan

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in…

— Randeep Hooda

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the…

— Anita Elberse

It is the responsibility of a director to introduce their politics in their films, and whether you like it or not your…

— Aparna Sen

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving…

— George Ratliff

I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad.…

— Vijay

When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had…

— Agnes Varda

I think that's what makes David Ayer really interesting. He likes to make a tough-y movie, but actually he's a character director.…

— Mireille Enos

I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a…

— Luc Besson

I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and…

— Greta Gerwig

Little projects - not feature - film projects - you know, theater things, writing things, and jobs like doing rewriting for money,…

— Tamara Jenkins

I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance…

— Karan Johar

I get a headache when films are too filled up with people. And I don't understand what's going on if there are…

— Eran Kolirin

For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that…

— David Ayer

Perhaps when I have 10 films behind me, I will have something worth saying.

— Terrence Malick

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

— Tariq Ali

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

— Gena Rowlands

I do six or seven films a year in order to sustain my lifestyle.

— Jason Flemyng

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

— Paolo Gentiloni

I just love films, whether they release on OTT or in theatres.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

— Dziga Vertov

Making films is such a large, collaborative effort and there's so many people who are a part of it.

— KiKi Layne

The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

— Ashton Kutcher

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

— Imtiaz Ali

My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.

— Brenton Thwaites

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

— Sanjay Dutt

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

— Kiran Rao