Cinema Quotes · Page 318

With your first film, you can make mistakes, but your second and third movies map out your career.

— Athiya Shetty

'Bengal Tiger' is huge film for me, and I had a blast working with both Ravi Teja and Tamannaah.

— Raashi Khanna

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

— Peter Mullan

I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.

— Mike Colter

I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'

— George Lucas

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

— Park Chan-wook

For me, a film is a film, and I just want to be part of good stories to grow as an actor.

— Vicky Kaushal

'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.

— Gary Sherman

There are so many films I lean on and look toward and return to that give me some guidance on how to…

— Peter Hedges

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible…

— Peter Weir

There are certain battles that are worth fighting for and we should just keep making the films that are important and relevant.

— Kabir Khan

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because…

— Lee Yoon-ki

'Raging Bull' was staggering to work on. I was well aware of how lucky I was to be in this extraordinary situation.…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Films, they allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They…

— Anonymous

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say…

— Pankaj Tripathi

There's been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. 'The Babadook' is this…

— Ari Aster

It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they…

— Rutger Hauer

I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music…

— Noel Wells

If you want a film and they don't want you, sometimes you have to go fight for it. Sometimes that ends up…

— Ryan Reynolds

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen…

— Terry Zwigoff

Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever…

— Spencer Grammer

“I smile at my friends, but Mer and Rashmi and Josh are distracted, arguing about something that happened over dinner. St. Clair…

— Stephanie Perkins

I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.

— Vijay Antony

I have always believed that cinema is the best way to reach out to the masses.

— Sanjay Mishra

Whether we have a new or an old director doesn't affect my work.

— Nana Patekar

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

— Mani Ratnam

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

— Julia Gillard

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

— Delta Burke

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

— Christian Metz

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

— Sharmila Tagore

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

— Emilio Estevez

Everybody says they want good films and when one turns up, they go watch item songs.

— Ranvir Shorey

I would love to do a film with Shah Rukh Khan or Salman Khan where I also have a great role.

— Parineeti Chopra

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

— Richard Gere

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

— Powers Boothe

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

— Nick Willing

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

— Agnes Varda