Cinema Quotes · Page 343

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 want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

— Alexander Payne

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

— Alia Bhatt

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

— John Cleese

It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more…

— James Gray

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on…

— Peter Brook

I won't deny that when you look at a director's work, you are aware of the different works that they have done.…

— Kirti Kulhari

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images.…

— Serge Daney

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just…

— Vicky Krieps

For me, watching a movie is an experience where I can go, eat popcorn, and enjoy with my friends and family. I…

— Tamannaah

They're expecting us to make mistakes, and they've set up a process that allows us to correct for that and do it…

— Pete Docter

In chatting to directors over the years, including James Wan, they always tell you the war stories. No one ever says, 'Oh,…

— Leigh Whannell

There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters.…

— Panos Cosmatos

I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why.…

— Christopher Nolan

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. Or, theater is for actors as cinema is…

— Diego Luna

I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as…

— Panos Cosmatos

Hollywood is a double feeling. Love and hate. With a talented film director, I cannot resist. They are such charming and intelligent…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter…

— Diane Ladd

I've worked on a lot of fun movies, but my favorite job was having a boss who gave the order to take…

— Kal Penn

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

— Peter Stormare

Publishing and film are such different worlds for writers.

— Leigh Bardugo

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

— Mason Cook

I became a producer because nobody was ready to finance my films.

— Vijay Antony

I always listen to my director and never argue with him.

— Chunky Pandey

What went wrong was that I did too many multi-starrers. Those films did well, just not for me.

— Zayed Khan

I have made more good films than anyone else in the country.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Being offered the role in the Jackie Chan film was amazing. I got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan.

— Eve Torres

I do not count how many films or series I am doing in a year.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

— Henry Rollins

The financing of my films has always been international.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

— Don Bluth

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

— Om Puri

I want to work in literature-based movies in Bengal as this is the specialty of the Bengali film industry.

— Tanushree Dutta

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

— Ridley Scott

The Punjabi film industry is fairly new and needs all the support it can get.

— Wamiqa Gabbi