Cinema Quotes · Page 359

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

— Penelope Spheeris

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

— Anson Mount

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

— Audrey Tautou

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

— April Pearson

At the end of the day, everything boils down to money and if the film doesn't do well, then there's no point.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

— George Lucas

I really fight hard to make things film where they're supposed to be filmed. If something is supposed to be in New…

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I…

— Beeban Kidron

The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the…

— Peter Guber

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film…

— Steven Spielberg

I have worked in films where we just put on the make-up and go in for a shoot without any discussions and…

— Parvathy

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been…

— Edgar Wright

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder…

— Susan Minot

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature…

— Jean Renoir

If we make films only for the frontbenchers, we can't make money. Hence, we have to make it for a majority audience.…

— S. S. Rajamouli

Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them…

— John Knoll

I have done a lot of short dramas that are three, four or five episodes and so that makes the filming process…

— Ashley Walters

The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into,…

— Margaret Atwood

I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first,…

— Carol Kane

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a…

— Darren Boyd

Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz…

— Ladyhawke

MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.

— Lena Headey

I would love to do regional cinema, provided the role is exciting enough and artistically challenging.

— Nushrat Bharucha

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

— Takashi Miike

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.

— Brenda Blethyn

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

— Matthew McConaughey

I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

— Debra Granik

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

— Robert Redford

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

— Edgar Wright

I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes.

— Glenn Gould

I personally am more interested in romantic films and don't like a lot of action.

— Sooraj Pancholi

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made…

— Jenny Hval

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

— Alexander Payne

I only treat myself as an audience with each film, I enjoy different stories.

— Vijay Antony