Quotes About Cinema

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

There was nothing to see but in my mind's eye I could see everything, because she had supplied the ancient cinema of this place.

I love going to movies.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa

According to the laws of early twenty-first century cinema, anyone speaking Japanese is in a horror movie. If

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Paul Schrader drove past theaters in New York where the film originally played and were at once thrilled and sickened to see lines of young men dressed in Bickle's familiar outfit of army fatigues and blue jeans, waiting to see the film for, presumably, second and third go-rounds.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

The one thing with 3D presentations is I think that 3D itself, whether it's 24 or 48, is at a very interesting point in time.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau's famous words - 'a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time'.

You remember where you were doing each scene. 'Oh my God, it was so hot that day.' It's kind of cool to see a movie that you haven't seen in a long time and reflect on that stuff.

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.