Cinema Quote by David Bennun

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the…

— Jane Campion

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big…

— Alexander Payne

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days…

— Gary Oldman

I have the opportunity to make my films and I think that's a luxury. I don't have any problems by filming things that can…

— Miguel Gomes

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing…

— Jane Campion

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century…

— Joss Whedon

The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there…

— Ray Liotta

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of…

— Bill Nighy

Till I get the right film, I am enjoying TV.

— Rubina Dilaik

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order…

— Sergio Leone

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

— Liz Garbus

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this…

— Mike Leigh