Quotes About Cinema

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers', it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.

I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy whom I loved.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way. L.A. is more transparent.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later?" Stanley Kubrick

The American Film Institute ranked him as the Greatest Male Star in cinema history. The honors were only beginning. In 1997 Entertainment Weekly designated Humphrey the Number One Movie Legend of all time. That year the United States Postal Service issued a stamp bearing his liken

Ein ausverkauftes, erwartungsvoll gestimmtes Kino ist ein Erlebnis. Die Phantasien über den bevorstehenden Film bekommen Bärenkräfte. Wenn er dann wirklich spannend ist, wird die Sache unvergeßlich.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

The movies are something that I've been obsessed with, and I've subscribed to movie magazines all my life, since I was a child.

We are always larger than life because we come from this mentality that since we are a very poor nation, we need an escapist cinema to take us out of our miseries. And that's where Bollywood comes from.