Cinema Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly…

— Nagisa Oshima

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

— Abhay Deol

“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a…

— Pauline Kael

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

— Martin Parr

“Movies are not good or bad because of their subjects but because of their treatments of their subjects. Any plot can be made into…

— Roger Ebert

I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If…

— Hansika Motwani

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the…

— Prabhu Deva

“Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That’s why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy…

— Jean-Luc Godard

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the…

— Lionel Barrymore

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality,…

— John Boyega

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what…

— Delroy Lindo

“Unless immoral in the extreme, we should not automatically judge a movie as inappropriate based solely on its method of communication. Nor should we…

— Douglas M. Beaumont