Cinema Quotes · Page 341

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.

— Benicio Del Toro

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

— Danny Boyle

“We each need to have a movie that freaks us the fuck out so we can laugh at ourselves later”

— Anyta Sunday

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

Even when I was working in 30 films a year I was doing 20 plays a month.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I…

— Audrey Tautou

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and…

— Michael Socha

I started modelling from the age of 16, and within three years, I was bored and decided to shift to films. But…

— Sushmita Sen

I think film is first and foremost entertainment. But, all forms of entertainment throughout history have always produced works that last and…

— Christopher Nolan

I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a…

— Dakota Blue Richards

In my career, since people have appreciated my performance on television for years, even casting directors trust that I am capable of…

— Sunil Grover

“Films are not primarily an entertainment medium. They are weapons. If you understand that, then you are ready to pursue filmmaking as…

— Isaac Botkin

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And…

— Irrfan Khan

When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and…

— Donald Sutherland

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but…

— Lance Gross

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate…

— Herbert Read

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a…

— Ryan McGinley

So that would be my input and I'd go off and I'd work on another film, and then I'd catch up with…

— Pierce Brosnan

I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and…

— Jim Broadbent

There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are…

— Charles Burnett

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

— Aaron Sorkin

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

— Parker Posey

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

— Diana Ross

I want to expose myself to different streams arts - music, cinema and dance - and allow myself to grow.

— Akshara Haasan

It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.

— Elvis Mitchell

I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are.

— Sean Baker

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

— James Cameron

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

— Michael Ironside

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

— Al Stewart

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

— Noah Baumbach

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.

— Nick Love

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the…

— Huma Qureshi

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

— John Cassavetes

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

— Sonu Sood

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

— Dirk Benedict