Cinema Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

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

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

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.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

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

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

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

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

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

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

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

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Is the cinema more important than life?

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

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

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."

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

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

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

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

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

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

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.

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

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.

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

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

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

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

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.