Quotes about Cinema

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon. Votes: 5

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. Votes: 5

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. Votes: 5

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. Votes: 5

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Votes: 5

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. Votes: 5

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. Votes: 5

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. Votes: 4

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this. Votes: 4

Cinema is incredibly concise. Votes: 3

Cinema is like dream. Votes: 3

Cinema is movement, after all. Votes: 3

Cinema is an art form. Votes: 3

Cinema was my rite of passage. Votes: 3

Cinema has reached a dead end. Votes: 3

Cinema is a world of imagination. Votes: 3

Cinema is dead, long live cinema. Votes: 3

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. Votes: 3

Cinema is magic in the service of dreams. Votes: 3

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. Votes: 3

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone. Votes: 3

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains. Votes: 3

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me. Votes: 3

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. Votes: 3

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you. Votes: 3

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. Votes: 3

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress. Votes: 3

Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that. Votes: 3

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me. Votes: 3

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television. Votes: 3

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life Votes: 3

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. Votes: 3

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. Votes: 3

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. Votes: 3

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me. Votes: 3

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society. Votes: 3

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement. Votes: 3

One of the things I love about cinema is the range. Votes: 3

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. Votes: 3

Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go. Votes: 3

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week. Votes: 3

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community. Votes: 3

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. Votes: 3

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands. Votes: 3

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things. Votes: 3

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Votes: 3

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. Votes: 3

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that. Votes: 3

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite Votes: 3

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. Votes: 3

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. Votes: 3

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think. Votes: 3

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film. Votes: 3

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages. Votes: 3

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it. Votes: 3

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. Votes: 3

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema. Votes: 3

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. Votes: 3

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. Votes: 3

Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. Votes: 3

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. Votes: 3

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. Votes: 3

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of. Votes: 3

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth. Votes: 3

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. Votes: 3

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide. Votes: 3

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. Votes: 3

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema. Votes: 3

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem. Votes: 3

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything. Votes: 3

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. Votes: 3

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India. Votes: 3

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema. Votes: 3

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. Votes: 3

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. Votes: 3

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. Votes: 3

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin. Votes: 3

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression. Votes: 3

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema. Votes: 3

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema. Votes: 3

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing. Votes: 3

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. Votes: 3

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. Votes: 3

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that. Votes: 3

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. Votes: 3

Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema. Votes: 3

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply Votes: 3

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. Votes: 3

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. Votes: 3

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. Votes: 3

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit. Votes: 3

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time. Votes: 3

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. Votes: 3

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs Votes: 3

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. Votes: 3

Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world. Votes: 3

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Votes: 3

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things. Votes: 3

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me. Votes: 3

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't. Votes: 3

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. Votes: 3

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema. Votes: 1

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international Votes: 1

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema. Votes: 1

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding. Votes: 1

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important. Votes: 1

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. Votes: 1

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of. Votes: 1

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films Votes: 1

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again. Votes: 1

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one Votes: 1

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years. Votes: 1

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. Votes: 1

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person. Votes: 1

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the screen is its best medium Votes: 1

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. Votes: 1

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema. Votes: 1

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. Votes: 1

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions Votes: 1

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 Votes: 1

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us Votes: 1

I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed Votes: 1

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. Votes: 1

I just like really simple things. If I had been on tour for a while and I got to come back and take my girlfriend Eleanor on a date, we would go to the cinema and then out for dinner. Votes: 1

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work. Votes: 1

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters. Votes: 1

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. Votes: 1

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. Votes: 1

I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music. Votes: 1

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. Votes: 1

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. Votes: 1

Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transfoming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels Votes: 1

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second Votes: 0

The cinema is death at work. Votes: 0

I have always hated the cinema. Votes: 0

The best cinema is about ethics. Votes: 0

The essence of cinema is editing. Votes: 0

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema. Votes: 0

90 percent of Indian cinema is crap Votes: 0

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself Votes: 0

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. Votes: 0

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! Votes: 0

I don't go to the cinema much. Votes: 0

War is cinema, and cinema is war Votes: 0

Is the cinema more important than life? Votes: 0

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema. Votes: 0

What is fiction or cinema if not escape? Votes: 0

In cinema, the leading player is the director. Votes: 0

I am really not interested in the cinema. Votes: 0

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty. Votes: 0

The cinema that interests me departs from realism. Votes: 0

There are no rebels in the cinema business. Votes: 0

Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema. Votes: 0

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. Votes: 0

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges. Votes: 0

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway. Votes: 0

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema. Votes: 0

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema Votes: 0

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. Votes: 0

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget. Votes: 0

I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema. Votes: 0

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it. Votes: 0

Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing. Votes: 0

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world. Votes: 0

I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema. Votes: 0

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema. Votes: 0

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction. Votes: 0

I like my cinema gritty, I like my eggs gritty. Votes: 0

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality. Votes: 0

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international. Votes: 0

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable. Votes: 0

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever. Votes: 0

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema. Votes: 0

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination. Votes: 0

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language. Votes: 0

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that's made. Votes: 0

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement Votes: 0

What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video. Votes: 0

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. Votes: 0

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores. Votes: 0

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. Votes: 0

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films. Votes: 0

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream. Votes: 0

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad. Votes: 0

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema. Votes: 0

Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema Votes: 0

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. Votes: 0

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio. Votes: 0

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language! Votes: 0

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema. Votes: 0

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic... Votes: 0

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. Votes: 0

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. Votes: 0

I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young. Votes: 0

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art. Votes: 0

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head. Votes: 0

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs. Votes: 0

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace. Votes: 0

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business. Votes: 0

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important. Votes: 0

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic. Votes: 0

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance. Votes: 0

When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films. Votes: 0

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist. Votes: 0

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema. Votes: 0

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself. Votes: 0

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. Votes: 0

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well. Votes: 0

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there. Votes: 0

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. Votes: 0

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema. Votes: 0

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money. Votes: 0

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. Votes: 0

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema. Votes: 0

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema. Votes: 0

I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films. Votes: 0

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television. Votes: 0

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' Votes: 0

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world. Votes: 0

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. Votes: 0

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema. Votes: 0

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages. Votes: 0

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. Votes: 0

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema. Votes: 0

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. Votes: 0

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance. Votes: 0

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema. Votes: 0

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema. Votes: 0

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. Votes: 0

What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema. Votes: 0

The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. Votes: 0

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. Votes: 0

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. Votes: 0

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe. Votes: 0

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child. Votes: 0

Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this. Votes: 0

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. Votes: 0

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go. Votes: 0

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. Votes: 0

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. Votes: 0

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. Votes: 0

If you don't like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don't like cinema. Votes: 0

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round. Votes: 0

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. Votes: 0

I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema. Votes: 0

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema. Votes: 0

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands. Votes: 0

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. Votes: 0

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking. Votes: 0

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life. Votes: 0

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema. Votes: 0

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. Votes: 0

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras. Votes: 0

I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!" Votes: 0

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema! Votes: 0

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema. Votes: 0

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down. Votes: 0

People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own. Votes: 0

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker. Votes: 0

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. Votes: 0

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is. Votes: 0

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars. Votes: 0

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. Votes: 0

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. Votes: 0

Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience. Votes: 0

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing. Votes: 0

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time. Votes: 0

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema. Votes: 0

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran. Votes: 0

I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema Votes: 0

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. Votes: 0

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal. Votes: 0

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind. Votes: 0

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema. Votes: 0

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. Votes: 0

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual. Votes: 0

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. Votes: 0

America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema. Votes: 0

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. Votes: 0

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? Votes: 0

I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema. Votes: 0

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Votes: 0

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional. Votes: 0

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema. Votes: 0

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims. Votes: 0

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere. Votes: 0

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film. Votes: 0

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema. Votes: 0

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying. Votes: 0

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema. Votes: 0

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way. Votes: 0

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films. Votes: 0

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies. Votes: 0

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema. Votes: 0

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do. Votes: 0

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films. Votes: 0

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster. Votes: 0

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art. Votes: 0

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. Votes: 0

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family. Votes: 0

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive. Votes: 0

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' Votes: 0

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite. Votes: 0

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk. Votes: 0

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so. Votes: 0

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration. Votes: 0

What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films. Votes: 0

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant. Votes: 0

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second. Votes: 0

['American Dream' will be released] probably never.Never in the United States because there's no room for independent cinema. Votes: 0

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema. Votes: 0

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. Votes: 0

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class. Votes: 0

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act. Votes: 0

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. Votes: 0

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema. Votes: 0

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. Votes: 0

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty. Votes: 0

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect. Votes: 0

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema. Votes: 0

I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema. Votes: 0

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. Votes: 0

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from. Votes: 0

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. Votes: 0

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for. Votes: 0

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period. Votes: 0

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films. Votes: 0

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. Votes: 0

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage. Votes: 0

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. Votes: 0

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema. Votes: 0

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function. Votes: 0

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. Votes: 0

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films. Votes: 0

I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big. Votes: 0

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles " it's a small percentage. Votes: 0

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. Votes: 0

We go to the cinema we see images projected on the screen - but they're not real, they're only images. Votes: 0

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema. Votes: 0

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. Votes: 0

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films. Votes: 0

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films. Votes: 0

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre. Votes: 0

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock. Votes: 0

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much. Votes: 0

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back. Votes: 0

My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema. Votes: 0

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area. Votes: 0

It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema. Votes: 0

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images Votes: 0

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you. Votes: 0

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet. Votes: 0

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders. Votes: 0

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand. Votes: 0

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. Votes: 0

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. Votes: 0

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema. Votes: 0

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage. Votes: 0

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie. Votes: 0

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. Votes: 0

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. Votes: 0

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping. Votes: 0

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind. Votes: 0

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. Votes: 0

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films. Votes: 0

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people. Votes: 0

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems. Votes: 0

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world. Votes: 0

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. Votes: 0

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'. Votes: 0

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. Votes: 0

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema. Votes: 0

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. Votes: 0

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema. Votes: 0

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. Votes: 0

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films. Votes: 0

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite. Votes: 0

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. Votes: 0

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. Votes: 0

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times. Votes: 0

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. Votes: 0

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats -- all of it. Votes: 0

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. Votes: 0

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. Votes: 0

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Votes: 0

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world. Votes: 0

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. Votes: 0

To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time. Votes: 0

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. Votes: 0

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces. Votes: 0

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is. Votes: 0

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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!" Votes: 0

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own. Votes: 0

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema. Votes: 0

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema. Votes: 0

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged. Votes: 0

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau's famous words - "˜a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time'. Votes: 0

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language. Votes: 0

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. Votes: 0

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema. Votes: 0

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. Votes: 0

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. Votes: 0

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Votes: 0

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. Votes: 0

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India. Votes: 0

Indian cinema gives you everything that western cinema doesn't. It's maseladar and spicy. If you like Indian food, I think you'll love Indian movies. Votes: 0

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves. Votes: 0

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. Votes: 0

The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. Votes: 0

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. Votes: 0

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more. Votes: 0

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now. Votes: 0

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm. Votes: 0

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Votes: 0

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure. Votes: 0

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. Votes: 0

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel. Votes: 0

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women. Votes: 0

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. Votes: 0

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching. Votes: 0

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading. Votes: 0

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other. Votes: 0

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real. Votes: 0

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. Votes: 0

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema. Votes: 0

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by. Votes: 0

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition. Votes: 0

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience. Votes: 0

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie. Votes: 0

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about. Votes: 0

I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer. Votes: 0

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT. Votes: 0

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history. Votes: 0

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend. Votes: 0

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible Votes: 0

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers. Votes: 0

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence. Votes: 0

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man. Votes: 0

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema. Votes: 0

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema. Votes: 0

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen. Votes: 0

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film. Votes: 0

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema. Votes: 0

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema." Votes: 0

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir. Votes: 0

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. Votes: 0

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple. Votes: 0

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. Votes: 0

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality. Votes: 0

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example. Votes: 0

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema. Votes: 0

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different. Votes: 0

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema. Votes: 0

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie. Votes: 0

It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema. Votes: 0

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television. Votes: 0

My cinema - the '50s, '60s - is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream. Votes: 0