Cinema Quotes · Page 442

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a…

— Rudolf Buitendach

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes…

— Jackie Chan

I strongly believe that besides having good action, action-oriented films need to have a good baseline for the script.

— Sajid Khan

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so…

— Jennifer Todd

I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can…

— Roger Corman

I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the…

— Karl Urban

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand…

— Chloe Zhao

The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little…

— Casey Wilson

One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning…

— Terence Winter

I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them…

— Lars von Trier

The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's…

— Cary Fukunaga

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch…

— Saina Nehwal

I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine,…

— Roger Corman

A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a…

— Finn Wittrock

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and…

— Marlon Wayans

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

— Zeenat Aman

I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,…

— William Monahan

I had directed a short film called 'Girvhi' earlier, on child labour. It was a fictional story. At that time, I realised…

— Soni Razdan

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working…

— Lynn Shelton

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

— Truman Capote

All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

— Brett Gelman

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would…

— Ridley Scott

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm…

— Ludivine Sagnier

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this…

— Louis Garrel

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes…

— Guy Pearce

I'm very grateful for work especially in film industry. It's highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me…

— Famke Janssen

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels…

— Spike Jonze

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think…

— David Schwimmer

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle…

— Martha Rosler

In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it…

— Jean Reno

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a…

— Neill Blomkamp

When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the…

— Jacki Weaver

Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts.…

— Andrew Dominik

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and…

— Sriram Raghavan

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this…

— Mani Ratnam

Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

— Patti Smith

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

— Rohit Shetty

I started off with films similar to 'Blood Money' - intense, emotional dramas. But as is often the case, the industry and…

— Kunal Khemu