Cinema Quotes

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

90 percent of Indian cinema is crap

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.