Cinema Quotes
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One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
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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.
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The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
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I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
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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.
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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...
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If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.
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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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'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.
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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.
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I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
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I want to be part of movies which set benchmarks for a new kind of cinema.
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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.
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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.
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All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
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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.
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The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
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Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.
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Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.
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When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.
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I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
