Cinema Quotes

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

When people see what real 3D looks like, they'll go, "Oh, that's why I spend an extra $5 a cinema ticket. That's worth it!"

I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big.

I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.