Quotes About Cinema

I always wanted to be part of a realistic film where there is less to act and more to live.

What I like about Kannada cinema is that the stories are realistic, but told in grand, larger-than-life fashion.

I loved 'Goodbye to Language.'

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!

I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.

I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

Film is my favourite without a doubt. I am a film romantic and I love the grandeur of cinema. Dark theatres and big screens are my first love.

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'

I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.

For any actor, being part of a Mani Ratnam film is a great experience. I grew up watching his films.

'Black Mass' was a really great experience.

It was a great experience to work with director A. L. Vijay.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.

For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.

When 'Blade Runner' came out, and especially, even actually when 'Alien' came out, it kind of changed how all science fiction movies were designed after that. And that was a really great thing. Now we're watching a lot of movies that are Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of 'Blade Runner.'