Cinema Quotes

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Be smart, but never show it.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Big things have small beginnings.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

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.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

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.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

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.

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

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