Cinema Quotes

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

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

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

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

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.

Cinema is always a political art, at the end.

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.

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

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.

There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!

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

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.

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.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

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

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

I don't go to the cinema much.

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.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

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

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.

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

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

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

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.

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

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

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.

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

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

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

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

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

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

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself