Cinematic Dreams Quotes

Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

When I am dreaming at night, I see everything as a shot from a movie. I have cranes and extras in my dreams. I swear to you! It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots.

I grew up hearing about Raj Kapoor and K. Asif and the way they used to make films lavishly. We are dream merchants and we have got to sell dreams, which are lapped up by all.

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.

All film, at the end of the day, has wish-fulfillment.

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

I'd dream of assisting Gautham Menon after watching 'Kaakha Kaakha.'

I want to be in a Tim Burton movie so bad.

I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

You go to the movies to be transported. That's the responsibility of filmmakers and the people that hire the filmmakers - to try and find new dreams we can all share together.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.

I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.