Cinema Quotes

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

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.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

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.

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

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.

Cinema is movement, after all.

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

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

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

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

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.

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

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

Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

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

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

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

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

I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome.

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

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

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

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I have always hated the cinema.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

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

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

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

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.

The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

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

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.

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.

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

I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.

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

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

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

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.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

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

Give me B movies or give me death!

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

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

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