Cinema Quote by John Cassavetes Download Open image “Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?” — John Cassavetes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Exploring Film Filmmaking Want
Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive. — Marco Beltrami Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways. — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about.… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies. — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
To me, the only purpose in making films, in my mind, is to talk about something and go to a place that might be… — Charlie McDowell Copy Share Image
I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I like to act in films, I like to shoot 'em, I like to direct 'em, I like to be around 'em. I like… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling. — John Cassavetes 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