Cinema Quotes

• I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.

  

  Bob Mondello
  • Music
  • Words
  • Screen

• The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Guy
  • Comic
  • Backgrounds

• 'Baahubali' was really the film that broke most barriers of what regional cinema can do nationally.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • Cinema
  • Barriers
  • Regional

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

  

  Mike Leigh
  • World
  • Cinema
  • Filmmaker

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

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

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Reading
  • Cinema

• 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

• 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
  • People
  • Expression
  • Cinema

• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Cinema
  • Phenomenon

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sunny Deol
  • Entertainment
  • Cinema

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

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Feels
  • Cinema

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

  

  Gerard Depardieu
  • Cinema
  • Shores

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

  

  Mike Figgis
  • World
  • Country
  • Fans

• 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

• 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

• Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Television
  • Boring
  • Cinema

• 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
  • Reality
  • Chaos
  • Dimension

• One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Love
  • Cinema
  • Range

• There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!

  

  Steven Hill
  • Word
  • Say
  • Dating

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