Film Quotes · Page 94

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I have to do films for myself, films that make me learn. I also have to be an entertainer.

— Karthi

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

— Mackenzie Astin

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

— Margaret Rutherford

I like to make films which a family can sit and watch together.

— Sajid Khan

I have been a long time fan of Jean-Luc Godard. It's my dream to work with him.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

After a film finishes, I generally go on hiatus for sometime.

— Sanjay Mishra

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what…

— Shane Carruth

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

— Ralph Bakshi

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better…

— Alexander Payne

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

— Edward Zwick

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70…

— David Lynch

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema,…

— Alison Goldfrapp

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of…

— Werner Herzog

We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses…

— Philippe Falardeau

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've…

— George Hickenlooper

Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel…

— John Boyega

We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours…

— Dustin Hoffman

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all…

— Gary Oldman

When Kubrick called me about 'The Shining,' it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There's not…

— Ellen Wong

TV is an extraordinary medium. You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more…

— Naveen Andrews

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

— Oscar Isaac

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

— Kyle Chandler

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

— Norman McLaren

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn't.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I have my rules of thumb, but, you know, making movies should always be fun.

— Gareth Evans

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

— Nick Offerman

I am bound by a contract to not accept other films until 'Mohenjo Daro's release.

— Pooja Hegde

Promotions are insane! It's the toughest part about making a movie, for us actors at least.

— Sanam Saeed

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

— Sanaa Lathan

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

— Jeanne Moreau

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

— Wang Jianlin

So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

— Kirsten Dunst

I'm not switching from Bollywood to the Malayalam film industry.

— Dino Morea

People don't know what star-struck is until they've met Tom Hanks.

— Chad Gilbert

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.

— Yorgos Lanthimos