Quotes About Cinema

If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

I am a huge fan of Prabhu and Karthik and have seen their films.

I used to be a huge fan of Francis Ford Coppola.

I love John Hughes films.

There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him.

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

One of the first movies that I saw in the theatre was 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun.'

Since my childhood, I was that girl who would walk into a movie hall starry-eyed having this hunch that I will be there and can do this though I did not have the guts to share my feeling with my parents.

The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions. The approximation which follows is that, from that point, the sequences of images and even each image, a single shot, are assimilated to propositions or rather oral utterances [...].

The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world, our only link. (…). Restoring our belief in the world – this is the power of cinema

But then almost everyone nowadays had two lives, his own and his life at the movies.

I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.' Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing.

Margo shushing Alice, who had to sigh theatrically every time Cary Grant did a Cary Grant thing.

The one entertainment he allowed himself was a trip to the cheapest cinema, with his workmates, once a week.

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen offices in Germany and Austria.

By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the humanity of the soldiers of Nippon. There may be a few I've missed, but not many.

I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II.

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

I have a commitment to real worlds on screen. I like working in real communities. I like telling real stories.