Cinema Quotes

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

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

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

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

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

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.

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

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.

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

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

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

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

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

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

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

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.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

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

The cinema is death at work.

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

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

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

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

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

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

90 percent of Indian cinema is crap

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

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.

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

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

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

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