Quotes About Cinema

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

Music in this film is a very important part.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

With an award like the Asian Film Awards, we've sent a message saying that 'Asian Cinema is here, it matters, and more importantly, we are all part of the same fraternity!' The AFA is truly, then, an award for Asia, by Asia.

On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from inside. It's much more intense.

I'm a big believer in cinema, you know - what it used to be? Images and sound, and working it out a bit. I find it exciting watching films where I just go into an impressive world.

'Sicario' was a lot of improvisation.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I didn't grow up watching films, as I was more academically inclined.

Some of my favorite scores include Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.

I'd like to do an independent film.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

I've directed independent film.

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

I would like to do more independent films.

An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.

When I walk into a cinema, I want to leave with an experience unrepeatable, unquotable and indescribable.

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.