Cinema Quotes · Page 355

No one knows which film will be a hit or flop. Film making is a gamble.

— Tanikella Bharani

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

— Bill Forsyth

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

— Brian De Palma

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

— Fede Alvarez

Cinema in India is growing big time and people abroad have started recognising us.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I want to improve with every film, including being better groomed.

— Radhika Pandit

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

— Kevin Costner

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to…

— Robert Maillet

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

— Tom Hooper

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to…

— Arundhati Roy

I think that's how you have to make films. You can't try to imitate or repeat. You have to make your own…

— Maryann Brandon

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I…

— Isla Fisher

“Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness. The cinema involves putting…

— Franz Kafka

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different…

— Vir Das

The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor.…

— Sean Penn

The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational…

— Wes Craven

The inter-relationships between people have always fascinated me, as a director. And particularly those who are battlers in life, those who are…

— George Ogilvie

I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and…

— Oliver Stone

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I…

— William Moseley

What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote…

— Julie Delpy

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was…

— Ben Affleck

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

— Imtiaz Ali

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

— Imogen Poots

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

— James McAvoy

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

— Patrice Leconte

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

— Helen Mirren

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

— Joe Pantoliano

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

— Paul Walker

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

— Roger Ebert

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in…

— Alexander Payne

It's directors' choice if they want to work with me. Not mine.

— Sridevi

If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.

— Ti West

“Theater is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.”

— Michael Nesmith

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

— Johnny Depp

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

— Joshua Leonard

My films are always a struggle to make and will remain so.

— Shoojit Sircar