Cinema Quotes

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

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

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

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.

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

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.