Quotes About Cinema

I was at the premiere of 'Prisoners,' and I heard two thousand people scream at the same time. I turned to my wife and said, 'I love cinema!' It's the sharing of emotions together, and it's collective. It's one of the last communions we have.

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

To those men who say that women from "good families" must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by "good?" A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

I feel good when I leave the darkness of the cinema, it makes me feel my life is important. For a few minutes, I stroll along the dark streets, thinking of myself as someone in a film- a man with a character, a destiny. I become aware of my clothes and my physical mass; of my quiddity, my value.

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

Movies are different from real life.

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.