Cinema Quotes

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

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

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

Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

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

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

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.

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

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

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

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

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.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

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.

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.

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

The best cinema is about ethics.

I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

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

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

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

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

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

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

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

There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema are exploring some really bold themes.

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.

For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

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

With cinema, one of the great lies dating back to its origin was "It's just entertainment! It doesn't make any impact" Like the great Samuel Goldwyn said, "If you've got a message, send a telegram."

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

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

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

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

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

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

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

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

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

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).