Cinema Quotes · Page 321

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

— Mahesh Bhatt

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of…

— Isabelle Huppert

As an actor I have no hang-ups whatsoever about cinema. It can be mainstream, art, regional or national.

— Neha Dhupia

Bengal has always produced good cinema, be it Satyajit Ray or Ritwik Ghatak.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

— Sam Riley

I believe whether my films work or not, the music should work.

— Jackky Bhagnani

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.

— Glen Duncan

I'm not finding fault or blaming the industry, but the heroes have always dominated the film industry.

— Priyamani

I didn't watch a film after the 1960s. I have no idea who all were the good heroes, directors or producers in…

— Milkha Singh

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got…

— Sullivan Stapleton

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called…

— Eli Wallach

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but…

— Barbara Broccoli

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

— Jehane Noujaim

A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but…

— Larry Wilcox

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I…

— Debra Granik

As much as I moved to New York and tried to work in theater as much as I could - I developed…

— William Fichtner

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching…

— Barkhad Abdi

My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television…

— Laurence Fishburne

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan…

— Robert Altman

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it…

— Larry Cohen

I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay.…

— Stacy Peralta

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's…

— Lee Grant

I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters…

— Oscar Isaac

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

— Sasha Alexander

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

— Alex Gibney

Whenever somebody comes to me with a script, I ask a question to myself - 'Why do I want to do the…

— Nana Patekar

I have always believed in quality and meaningful cinema and not quantity.

— Manoj Kumar

My fans are there because of my work, because of the films that I did. They are my assets.

— Sudeep

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

— Natalie Portman

Not everyone wants to see children's films, comics, and supermen.

— John Hurt

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

— Jerry Weintraub

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

— Matthew Weiner

I want to do more new-age content, look beyond conventional cinema.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

— Don Johnson

To make our cinema international, we first need to make national movies.

— Manoj Kumar

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have always been slow to sign films, ever since my debut.

— Pranitha Subhash

After my second and third movies, which did not click, I realised I should not do something that's too heavy.

— Vishnu Vishal