Cinema Quotes

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

['American Dream' will be released] probably never.Never in the United States because there's no room for independent cinema.

When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

Exhibition is certainly the safest part of the cinema business, but it's very capital intensive.

I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?

I love cinema. It is the most important thing to me. Life is cinema. It has been this way since I was a child of about 14, and I was going every day to see the movies.

What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

I mean, "The Jinx" is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment, it's rare documentarians can feel the direct impact of their work.

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.