Cinema Quotes · Page 328

I've become a huge fan of small films and realistic roles.

— Bobby Deol

I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Sometimes your films don't do well, despite having a big star cast, renowned directors and producers.

— Bhumika Chawla

I like being part of a film scene where the person at the top is a really good person.

— Emily Hampshire

I've always looked forward to do something different in all my films.

— Nithya Menen

Thanks to 'Eega,' people respect me as actor. That abundance of respect is what pulls me towards cinema.

— Sudeep

“There are no "old" movies really - only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.”

— Peter Bogdanovich

My kitty is full of films and I have been shuttling between Chennai and Hyderabad.

— Kovai Sarala

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in…

— Dia Mirza

Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that…

— Pilou Asbaek

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but…

— Ethan Hawke

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a…

— Galen Rowell

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the…

— Joe Wright

I don't believe in women-centric films, but I certainly believe that we should create films that have more challenging roles for women…

— Kiran Rao

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think…

— Asia Argento

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the…

— Pierce Brosnan

Well, animation is the closest of the film media, or genres if you will, to stage because it's very artificial. Let's face…

— Stephen Schwartz

Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that's at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without…

— Tom Ford

I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

Being an actor in TV or movies is different. A film or TV actor, if put in theatre, won't know certain dimensions,…

— Barun Sobti

I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a…

— Francis Lawrence

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there…

— Mike Leigh

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons.…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I didn't even plan Bollywood! I did my first film just to experience something new, and not start a career!

— Taapsee Pannu

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

— Barry Jenkins

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

— Alexander Mackendrick

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

— Jackie Chan

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

— Woody Allen

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show

— John Turturro

The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now.

— Dhanush

Hindi cinema needs to make working women and women of substance more visible.

— Shabana Azmi

It took so long to write 'Benjamin' that by the time we were shooting it, I understood what the film was about.

— Simon Amstell

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

— Martin Landau

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

— Bonnie Hammer

When I turned 13 all of my life was designed around earning money to buy cinema tickets.

— Celine Sciamma

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

— Colin Firth

Films have to appeal to youngsters - it has to have tamasha, drama, and sensationalism.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

— Paresh Rawal

A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.

— Rajkummar Rao