Cinema Quotes · Page 352

The biggest thing with watching film is that I see things that I know I can correct.

— Dwayne Haskins

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

— Vaani Kapoor

I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.

— Allu Arjun

When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.

— Varun Dhawan

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

— Jim Rash

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

— Kristen Wiig

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

— Andrea Arnold

I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

— Tilda Swinton

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move…

— George Lucas

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get…

— Frida Farrell

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see…

— Morgan Neville

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they…

— Dustin Hoffman

Why do we have this fascination about Oscars? We know the manipulation there. If a film is liked in our country, what…

— Manoj Kumar

When I was watching 'Sivaji,' I had no clue I will be a filmmaker; I had not even started making short films…

— Karthik Subbaraj

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological…

— Vsevolod Pudovkin

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and…

— Ron Fournier

I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and…

— Jared Harris

You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that…

— Christopher Meledandri

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep…

— George Clooney

I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so…

— Robert Knepper

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands…

— Peter Greenaway

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at…

— Elvis Mitchell

I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at…

— Spike Lee

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

— Steven Soderbergh

My passion for film-making was bordering indulgence. But gone are those days when I was adventurous.

— Boney Kapoor

Be it cinema or TV, I have always been interested in taking up challenging projects.

— Mohanlal

The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

— Claire Forlani

At one point of time, I would like to shoulder a film on myself.

— Payal Rohatgi

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

— Timo Tjahjanto

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

— Ryan Gosling

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it

— Claire Bloom

When I'm choosing films to work on, the first question I ask myself is, does this story stir my passion?

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

— Christopher Walken

Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.

— Samantha Eggar

I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

— Daryl Hannah

Some films are aspirational. But there is room for stories which don't have a beginning or end.

— Soha Ali Khan

'Paruthiveeran' was a difficult film to work on. It was my first film but a very strong character.

— Karthi

I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.

— Joshua Mohr

I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

— Harmony Korine