Cinema Quotes

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

The essence of cinema is editing.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Cinema is an art form.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema.