Quotes About Cinema

Any film I make, my intention is always to make people like it.

If you want to show cinema, make entertainment films. Sometimes they are very good, sometimes very bad, but the intention is always to make entertaining films.

I love crying. I pick movies to go see with the intention of crying.

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

As an actor, one is always looking at doing interesting things... meatier roles... stories that turn out exactly the way on screen like when they were narrated to you.

With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'

'Intermission' was my favourite film.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

I've always said that the more ethnic you become, the more international your film becomes.

I see myself composing for Hindi films as well as international stuff.

The financing of my films has always been international.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Having a couple of films that were successful internationally has made the film community aware of the films coming out of Greece.

'Sholay' can be given so many interpretations. I have seen this film so many times since the time I was a kid that I think that there could be 50 lovely interpretations to this film. Different filmmakers can give it so many interpretations, as it's a lovely film.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

April 19 King Kong Day

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

Tiana's head seemed to turn of its own accord, drawn to a scene playing out like the moving picture shows on the big screen at the Prytania Theatre.

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. Itís a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.