Cinema Quotes · Page 332

We can't say whether a film will be a hit or flop. There's something which just clicks with people.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

— Stevie Nicks

I worked on a Hal Hartley film. I think I was a PA for costumes.

— Kelly Reichardt

I really want to be doing indie films or passion projects.

— Jenna Ortega

Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.

— Jiang Wen

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

— John Frankenheimer

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

— Luke Evans

In films and TV, actors get chosen based on their capabilities, charisma and the image they carry.

— Suhasini Mulay

That's the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don't make money. Some of them are good. Some…

— Robert Englund

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a…

— Henry Selick

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love…

— Clemence Poesy

For many years, wildlife film-making has presented a pristine living world. It has created an impression of security and abundance, even in…

— George Monbiot

I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I…

— Sydney Pollack

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a…

— Mira Nair

When you don't feel good about a film after taking it up, spending 10-15 days on the shoot sets becomes difficult.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience…

— Natalie Dormer

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

The bottom line is if the movie does well, everybody is happy and they forget about what they went through. And if…

— Robert De Niro

Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die…

— John Cassavetes

I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at…

— Cate Blanchett

In a lot of movies, honestly, the directors don't talk to you that much. Maybe they say, "Faster, slower," whatever. Sometimes they…

— John Turturro

“Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the…

— Frank Lentricchia

I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general. I want to try and…

— Joe Swanberg

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I've directed web series, music videos, film shorts, and theater. It's just a hat I put on.

— Malik Yoba

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

— Christopher McQuarrie

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

— Hannibal Buress

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

— Robert Knepper

Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.

— Henry Thomas

I would like to do films where I will be remembered after people leave the theatres.

— Urmila Matondkar

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Anybody with a good smart phone can shoot and edit a film. Distributing it is the hard part.

— Vetrimaaran

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

— Peter Jackson

My personal goal is not just to make family films, but all kinds of films.

— Rob Minkoff

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

— Jason Patric

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

— Romola Garai

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

— Sergio Leone