Cinema Quotes
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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.
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My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.
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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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Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.
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I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.
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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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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.
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My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
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I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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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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As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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I want to be part of movies which set benchmarks for a new kind of cinema.
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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 so slow and boring compared to television.
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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!
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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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One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
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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 -
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?
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'Newton' has given a lot to our cinema.
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My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.
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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.
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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...
