Cinema Quotes · Page 320

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

— Sean Lennon

I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would…

— Nargis Fakhri

I am trained as a film-maker. There is nothing else I can do.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

— Sudha Murty

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

— Jim Broadbent

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

— Macaulay Culkin

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

— Peter Stone

I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good,

— Ryan Phillippe

The world is small, and the film industry is even smaller. So, if someone does something wrong, you really can't hide it,…

— Tamannaah

I think, in life, we want to surround ourselves with people who make us think and question ourselves, and those are the…

— Lily Collins

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm…

— Peter Sarsgaard

If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a…

— Bill Plympton

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything…

— Christopher Nolan

Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about…

— Woody Allen

I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on…

— Mike Leigh

“The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the…

— David J. Schow

I've loved to be a part of anything, having an opportunity to entertain, to be a part of a film, or just…

— Roman Reigns

“I make my films, Charlie. I do my lighting, place my camera angles and I tell the actors to walk this way…

— Ingmar Bergman

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,'…

— Jonathan Ke Quan

I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty…

— William Monahan

I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore.…

— Dileep Rao

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to…

— Alexandre Desplat

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

— Walter Benjamin

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

— Clive Owen

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

— Divya Dutta

I have the luxury of balancing and juggling films in different languages.

— Dulquer Salmaan

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

— Miranda Hart

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

— Spike Lee

The first film always chooses you, but you choose the second one.

— Sooraj Pancholi

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

— Barbara Hershey

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

— Pedro Almodovar

I ended up acting in two films with a tonsured head without even planning for it!

— Nizhalgal Ravi

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

— Mark Poster

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

— Joshua Henry

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

— Konnie Huq

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

— Guillermo del Toro

I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.

— Rachel Morrison

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

— Anthony Hopkins