Quotes about Movies, Cinema and Directors

Quotes about Movies, Cinema and Directors

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Christoph Waltz

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I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Darren Aronofsky

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Carole King

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Federico Fellini

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Pedro Almodovar

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Pedro Almodovar

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Kevin Bacon

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Claude Chabrol

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Abbas Kiarostami

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

Warwick Davis

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Alfred Hitchcock

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

Ajith Kumar

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Satyajit Ray

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Barry Eisler

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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Quentin Tarantino

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

George Lucas

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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Jessica Chastain

Acting is stupid. Everybody's like, "How can you remain with a level head?" And I'm like, "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies."

Jennifer Lawrence

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Bette Davis

I try to bring all my sincerity to the character I play. That way, I am dedicated.

Rajkummar Rao

I know it's a craze in Bollywood to have six-pack abs, but here, it's not the abs or the biceps that make us feel or look macho. Down south, the moustache still works for us.

Beards Bollywood

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

James McAvoy

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I find Hollywood really toxic.

Rachel Weisz

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People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

Rosario Dawson

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

Pedro Almodovar

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Pedro Almodovar

Usually, the evil guys are the more appealing roles.

Christoph Waltz

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

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Stories Writing

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

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I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

Darren Aronofsky

I'm a songwriter first.

Carole King

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Kevin Bacon

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

Claude Chabrol

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Abbas Kiarostami

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

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The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

Warwick Davis

No matter how big you are, when you go back home, your family treats you like a normal person.

Ajith Kumar

There's always some room for improvisation.

Satyajit Ray

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Barry Eisler

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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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