Quotes About Cinema

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

She remembers, for instance (though she hadn't been there), what the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man did to Estha in Abhilash Talkies. She remembers the taste of the tomato sandwiches—Estha's sandwiches, that Estha ate—on the Madras Mail to Madras.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

It's not a movie kind of love either.

Films are ephemeral, while books—the good ones—are eternal, or close to it.

Movies, they were the thing. Movies took you away. You could count on popcorn and happy endings.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

December 25 is National Jews Go to the Movies Day.