Cinema Quotes · Page 433

I believe real brothers or sisters should not do a film together. People tend to compare. They don't think twice before saying…

— Aparshakti Khurana

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

— Claude Lelouch

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of…

— Jordi Molla

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The…

— Lenny Abrahamson

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

— Gus Van Sant

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long…

— Jared Harris

There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great…

— Katrina Kaif

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control…

— Edgar Wright

Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the…

— John Malkovich

“Though I was immensely proud of what we had accomplished, I vowed that we would never make a film that way again.…

— Ed Catmull

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less…

— Bruce Willis

When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming…

— Robert De Niro

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is…

— Julian Huxley

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone…

— Bryan Cranston

At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people…

— Ann Dowd

You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see…

— Ian Mckellen

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

— Tito Ortiz

I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen,…

— Karl Urban

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get…

— Brian Lindstrom

On certain movies, you make friends that end up being your friends for the rest of your life. Those are the ones…

— Elden Henson

Doing comedy takes much lesser toll on you as a person. The overall exertion is not as much as a serious film…

— Kirti Kulhari

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I think 'Chhichhore' is the film that's closest to my heart - it's a very entertaining film with a lot of soul…

— Varun Sharma

Since I direct youth-oriented films, youngsters follow me and take inspiration from me so it is very important for me to dress…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not…

— Kevin Brownlow

Direction is something that interests me. Even while shooting, I always have conversations with the director to get a better understanding of…

— Ashish Sharma

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut…

— Harvey Weinstein

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

— Meredith Monk

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you…

— Milos Forman

I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work…

— Julianne Moore

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people…

— Jeff Smith

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but…

— Russell Crowe

I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director,…

— Takashi Miike

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film…

— Lawrence Jordan

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very…

— Abhishek Bachchan

I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever…

— Clark Gregg