
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
quote by Ben Kingsley

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, ""What do you want?"" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
quote by Nicole Kidman

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I consider melodrama to be a story or situation created artificially, with the sole purpose of attracting an audience’s attention. This is contrived very conveniently. If you want to depict a truthful drama, it is permissible to use any means available. Here I mean any possible dramatic situation, including the extreme examples you mentioned. However, this is the area in which true artists are separated from professional craftsmen. If the director, the “creator,” intends to produce a truly artistic work, he must carefully choose the most suitable dramatic situation from the many possibilities. This selection is in the director’s hands entirely, and the choice determines how fine an artist he is
Kaneto Shindo in Voices from the Japanese Cinema (1975)

Submitted by Simona Enache
Vote! | Copy!
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
quote by Antoine Fuqua

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
quote by Eva Marie Saint

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.
quote by Glenn Ford

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
quote by Mike Figgis

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
quote by Eriq La Salle

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, it's just moviemaking.
quote by Eriq La Salle

Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
quote by Richard Attenborough

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
quote by Hedy Lamarr

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
quote by Pedro Almodovar

Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!

Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
quote by Monica Bellucci

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Street Player
Ill never forget those aimless years
Street sounds swirling through my mind
Trouble was often in the air
So we fought to forget our despair
Im a street player
And Ill play you a song
cause you know, my heart & soul
Will carry, carry on
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
City lifes the only way
Street corners and billiard halls was our home away
Lessons learned still help me today
Im a street player
Ive seen it all
Hitmen, thieves and many a brawl
But as you see I still stand tall
It was such a small space in time
I never knew that I would find
A musical path for all to see
Anxiety into ecstacy
Im a street player
Im a street player
Im a street player
Im a street player
Im a street player
Ive seen it all
Hitmen, thieves and many a brawl
But as you see I still stand tall
It was such a small space in time
I never knew that I would find
A musical path for all to see
Anxiety into ecstacy
Im a street player
Im a street player
Im a street player
Im a street player
song performed by by Chicago

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
First Encounter - Yasmin Ahmad
the first and the last
at long last
best director at home
Malaysia Film Festival awards for Best Director (2009) Talentime. Her first and last for best director from the Malaysian premier film festival. was there at Putra World Trade Centre for the ceremony. She was clad in a yellow ensemble.
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo

Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I Am A Minor Player In This World
I AM A MINOR PLAYER IN THIS WORLD
I am a minor player in this world
A bit player on this stage
Who does not strut
And often barely seems
To be seen.
When the drama ends for me
The main show will go on
Without any break in its rhythm.
A few may notice
But their pain will too be drowned
In the general sound
Of everything else booming or screaming.
I am a bit player
And when the door is closed
The final exit made
This stage will continue to be played upon
As if
I had never scriven on it.
poem by Shalom Freedman

Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
quote by Jean-Luc Godard

Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
quote by Isabelle Huppert

Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.
quote by Maurice Jarre

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!