Film Quotes · Page 134

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

— Thomas Jane

I have always believed in quality and meaningful cinema and not quantity.

— Manoj Kumar

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

— Matthew Weiner

I want to do more new-age content, look beyond conventional cinema.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To make our cinema international, we first need to make national movies.

— Manoj Kumar

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

I think you can achieve things in television that you can't achieve on film, and I think we managed to do a…

— Naveen Andrews

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that…

— Richard Donner

This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture…

— Michael Chiklis

If you're in an Egyptian film and you're not Egyptian, you have to wear mascara and stuff like that.

— Geoffrey Rush

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the…

— Josh Hartnett

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

— Christopher Meledandri

Sometimes you have something to say, but you cannot say it through movies because there are restrictions - situations given by the…

— Ankit Tiwari

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

— Elia Kazan

I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back…

— Sarah Polley

That one thing that people say about me taking plays off, I feel like somebody said that when I was playing in…

— Julius Peppers

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a…

— Johnny Depp

I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give…

— John Kapelos

When you're writing for a game - even if you're using very well known characters like Batman and his villains who lend…

— Paul Dini

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like…

— George Hickenlooper

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're…

— Michael D. Barnes

The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much…

— Vincent Canby

I have always been slow to sign films, ever since my debut.

— Pranitha Subhash

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

— Sasha Alexander

Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

— Josh Hartnett

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

— Sam Riley

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

— Konnie Huq

I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.

— Rachel Morrison

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

— Anthony Hopkins

If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

— Mahesh Bhatt

The first film always chooses you, but you choose the second one.

— Sooraj Pancholi

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

— Spike Lee

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

— Miranda Hart

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

— Pedro Almodovar

“Flatliners the movie from 2017 has a deeper meaning, can you find it?”

— Deyth Banger

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

— Michael Moore

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

— Tovino Thomas