Cinema Quotes

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

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

I don't go to the cinema much.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

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

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.