Cinema Quotes · Page 329

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

— Xander Berkeley

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

— ASAP Rocky

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

— Suhasini Mulay

It is not easy to make an ensemble film - if there is one person with the wrong attitude, you are jacked.

— Shefali Shah

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

— Shweta Tripathi

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

— Ellen Page

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

— Craig Mazin

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

— Sam Shepard

I know my responsibilities as an actor and am aware that it is equally important to promote my films as to act…

— Radhika Pandit

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really…

— Imtiaz Ali

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you…

— Ang Lee

I think you tend to try, during the time you've got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total…

— Rosamund Pike

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

— M. Night Shyamalan

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted…

— Eric Fellner

There are so many amazing directors I would love to work with, like Christopher Nolan, who is a total pipe dream.

— Italia Ricci

The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I…

— Jason Blum

Me and Kirby are very collaborative and it changes from film to film. The first project we worked on together, Derrida, we…

— Amy Ziering

At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and…

— Olivia Thirlby

We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us…

— Debra Granik

“In the production of a good play with a good cast and a knowing director a kind of banding-together occurs; there is…

— Arthur Miller

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they…

— John Berger

“All film technique, I am convinced (and like many of my theories I am probably alone in adhering to it), originates in…

— William Boyd

Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going…

— Ed Royce

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

— Anurag Kashyap

It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.

— Rachel Morrison

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

— Nicholas Jarecki

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

— Edward Dmytryk

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

— Kay Kay Menon

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

— Bhumi Pednekar

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

— Debbie Reynolds

I made films for soaps and I was the Coca-Cola girl for England. I did a lot popular films, too.

— Anna Karina

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

— Brigitte Bardot

I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

— Rakul Preet Singh

If one goes by my filmography, I have done several films of different genres.

— Jeetendra

I'm very camera shy, but I realise it's important to promote films.

— Prabhu Deva

When I look back, there isn't a single film that I would disown becaus,e with every film, I've learnt a lot.

— Parvathy

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

— Tamsin Egerton

I want to do content-driven film, powerful roles which I've never done before.

— Mrunal Thakur

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

— Roman Coppola