Cinema Quotes
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My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.
Steven Rodney McQueen -
I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
Mike Figgis
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Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is “Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eat dinner.” The entire plot of Before Sunrise is “Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy walk around Vienna.” But the dialogue takes us everywhere, and as Roger Ebert notes, of My Dinner with Andre, these films may be paradoxically among the most visually stimulating in the history of the cinema...
Brian Christian -
I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.
Mike Leigh -
I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
Noel Clarke -
I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
Sergio Leone -
Cinema is like dream.
Susanne Langer -
Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.
Robert Wyatt
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What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
Elia Suleiman -
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
Peter O'Toole -
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
Michael Caine -
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.
Jean-Louis Trintignant -
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf -
Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.
Nick Willing
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I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.
Catherine Breillat -
I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
Mike Leigh -
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Roland Joffe -
The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
Tommy Lee Jones -
This is not that time of a cinema where you get 10 to 15 chances. You only get two to three chances, and if you do something nice in that, then it is great. Otherwise, people are very unforgiving.
Harshvardhan Rane -
A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
Steven Soderbergh