Cinema Quotes

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.

A movie that gets closer to the life's reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..!

...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.

Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

But this is the ultimate contradiction of cinema. It's a medium BORN of technology, AFRAID of technology and evolving towards the future BECAUSE OF technology.

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

The cinema is an invention without any future.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.

I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.

Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.