Cinema Quotes

• I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Cinema
  • Idiot
  • Script

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

  

  Sunny Deol
  • Entertainment
  • Cinema

• Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

  Nick Willing
  • Trying
  • Behinds
  • Cinema

• The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Power
  • History
  • Story

• I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • World
  • Country
  • Fans

• When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.

  

  Suriya
  • Meaningful
  • Entertainment
  • Cinema

• 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.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • People
  • Situation
  • Directors

• 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.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Surprise
  • Minutes
  • Elements

• I want to be part of movies which set benchmarks for a new kind of cinema.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • Kind
  • Cinema
  • Which

• Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Levels
  • Cinema

• I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • World
  • Cinema
  • Filmmaker

• 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
  • People
  • Cinema
  • Screen

• I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

  

  Michael York
  • Knows
  • Happens
  • Theater

• 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
  • Movies
  • Dialogue
  • Roger Ebert

• As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

  

  Florence Pugh
  • Problem
  • Look
  • Cinema

• 'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • America
  • Cinema
  • Wars

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

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Feels
  • Cinema

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

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Reading
  • Cinema

• When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

  

  Nash Edgerton
  • Cinema
  • Grew Up
  • Shorts

• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Cinema
  • Phenomenon

• Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Television
  • Boring
  • Cinema

• If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

  

  Gerard Depardieu
  • Cinema
  • Shores

• I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

  

  Andrew Haigh
  • Cinema
  • Extremes
  • Middle-class

• We see many posters and standees at cinema halls, and some catch attention. But these posters are soon forgotten. Taking a picture with the actors, enabled by AR, helps record a memory.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • Attention
  • Picture
  • Memory

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