Cinema Quotes · Page 36

When you do a good film, it will remain forever.

— Chunky Pandey

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

— Leos Carax

I like going on location for films.

— Katherine Heigl

I steal from every movie ever made.

— Quentin Tarantino

The crime film is the most honest American film.

— Andrew Dominik

I don't want to repeat myself as a director.

— Vivek Agnihotri

You can be in films and have a lot of dignity.

— Poonam Dhillon

I did my first film in Kannada.

— Mani Ratnam

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

— Reese Witherspoon

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

— Andrea Arnold

I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.

— Billy Eichner

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

— Norman Lear

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

— Larry Wilcox

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

— Helen McCrory

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

— Bill Nye

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

— Jean-Paul Belmondo

I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a…

— Karyn Kusama

“I sometimes wish for the old days when audiences used to be ignorant of world cinema and our inspired works were seen…

— Yashvir Dalaya

It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping…

— Anurag Kashyap

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

— Frank Darabont

All this while when I was not seen in Hindi films, I did a lot of regional cinema. I was a part…

— Raza Murad

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak.…

— John Hurt

I was waiting for good films after 'Fugly' released. My second film was important. I kept waiting, and the period strengthened me.…

— Kiara Advani

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

— Jonathan Levine

I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well,…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because…

— Will Ferrell

There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors…

— Haskell Wexler

I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are…

— Olivia Thirlby

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I…

— Sean Bean

You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and…

— Paul Morrissey

“I think that's what changed you, Beth. Your job. The film critic. Critics are parasites. They live off other people's creativity. They…

— Rainbow Rowell

I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this…

— Steven Caple Jr

'Galaxy Quest' is a fantastic film.

— Julian Barratt

I get so freaked out by film people.

— Chappell Roan

I grew up with action movies in my head.

— Christian Kane

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

People like a bit of honesty in films.

— Andrew Haigh

I agree to do a film if I like the subject.

— Prateik Babbar

Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.

— Kate Nash