Cinema Quotes · Page 319

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

I made my first foray into acting with a Bengali film 'Gane Bhuban Bhariye Debo.'

— Kumar Sanu

Getting to work with good filmmakers and getting to play good characters in films is so special.

— Prateik Babbar

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

— Barkhad Abdi

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

— Maximilian Schell

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

— Salman Khan

I am fortunate to have acted with a talented film personality like Cheran in two consecutive films.

— Navya Nair

I have refused a number of big movies. I can't work with those who try to keep tabs on me.

— Devi Sri Prasad

There is a perception that I do certain kind of films. That's not true. I am open to any good scripts with…

— Pankaj Kapur

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little…

— Patrick Warburton

Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.

— Steve Zahn

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I…

— Naomi Watts

I feel like all my films have my politics. As a film-maker, whatever story you're telling, your value system comes out.

— Zoya Akhtar

'Valhalla Rising' is a fusion of my upbringing, basically: everything I grew up loving and wanted to make a film of.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough…

— Victoria Abril

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going…

— Ryan Kwanten

I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from…

— Lynne Ramsay

In 'Bhram,' I have played an investment banker who is Sheetal Menon's love interest. I am very happy I did this film…

— Dino Morea

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when…

— Alessandro Nivola

'Belko Experiment' was the harshest, most extreme movie I ever made. But I still think there's a very cohesive center to it…

— James Gunn

I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound…

— Patrick Wilson

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful.…

— Karan Johar

What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it…

— Yann Martel

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci

Our cinema is star-based, while Hollywood is script-based.

— Vikram Bhatt

There are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.

— Kunal Khemu

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

— Vanessa Hudgens

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

— Natalie Portman

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch…

— Bun B

I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

— Eugenio Derbez

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

— Laurence Fishburne

There is a certain creative liberty an actor or a director is allowed to take.

— Shefali Shah

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

— Aaliyah

I don't think the choice of launching Sunny Leone as an actor in Hindi cinema was that radical a decision.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

— Jonathan Glazer

I am tired of starring in those films where I am being a part just for the sake of it.

— Asin

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

— Julian Barratt

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

— Malaika Arora Khan