Cinema Quotes · Page 322

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

— Steven Wright

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

— David Fincher

Maybe I'm more suited to making small independent films.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Since two of my films of 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' series worked, people think I am good in such roles.

— Kartik Aaryan

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

— Debra Wilson

'Purampokku' was one of those rare films made just like it was narrated.

— Vijay Sethupathi

If one person doesn't like your film, if he's powerful, your film will never see the light of day.

— Reggie Miller

In a film, there are too many characters. If the film is not a hit, then nobody really notices your work.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor…

— Marjane Satrapi

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but…

— Albert Brooks

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To…

— Diablo Cody

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult…

— Richard Widmark

I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting…

— Bill Pullman

I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery.…

— Himesh Reshammiya

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the…

— Walt Disney

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film…

— Martin Scorsese

A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though…

— Randeep Hooda

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And…

— Jane Campion

“They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in…

— Alain Resnais

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many…

— Ava DuVernay

My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having…

— Sofia Coppola

When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But…

— Dennis Haysbert

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

If we go out we'll go to the cinema which is a great excuse for me to eat popcorn.

— Frankie Bridge

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

— Julie Andrews

While representing violence on screen, some directors tend to gloss over it while others glamorize it.

— Victor Banerjee

I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

— Woody Allen

I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space.

— Taika Waititi

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

— Alexander Payne

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

— John Slattery

It's really idealistic and hippy-dippy but I do believe film is a really powerful tool for reaching people.

— Rachel House

I don't mind sitting at home for six months if there's no film that I want to do.

— Alia Bhatt

At the end of the day, nobody will do any favour to my dad by watching his daughter's film.

— Shruti Haasan

I've slogged to become a director; it's taken a lot out of me.

— Samuthirakani

I don't personally like slasher movies that make you scream in the movie theater.

— Peter Stormare

I started as a director very young and fell into acting.

— Peter Stormare

Publishing and film are such different worlds for writers.

— Leigh Bardugo