Cinema Quote by Elia Kazan Download Open image “A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.” — Elia Kazan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Desperate Desperate People Director Shot Directors Doe Does Desperate Film Film Director Film directors Matter People Shots
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Actors too need directors who can fire their imagination. The fire needs to be stoked. — Ashish Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
As an actor, we can only do what the director wants. Only the director has a vision of the entire film. — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film. — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the… — Jon Turteltaub Copy Share Image
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money,… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
