Quotes About Cinema

In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

WCC is not an arbitrator, it's a collection of people who represent and protect the interest of women in cinema. We are an organisation that facilitates solutions for a just work space and don't see ourselves as arbitrators of justice.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.

I want to make a movie with Al Pacino someday.

I will like to work with the best of the actors in Malayalam someday in future.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

We want the kind of love that sells movie tickets.

People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

I am a massive film geek, and I love movies.

I love movies.

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or a raincoat, queue up at a cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk to Ciudadela Park in the morning, and then, in the afternoon, make someone disappear in the dungeons of Monjuïc Castle or in a common grave with no name or ceremony.

The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on, it's much the same.

I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or a raincoat, queue up at a cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk

Americans are inventing something called television, which will be like the cinema, only at home. There'll be no more need for books, or churches, or anything.

Gehen Sie nicht gern ins Kino, Fermin? Im Vertrauen gesagt, mich lässt diese siebte Kunst völlig kalt. Meiner Meinung nach ist das nichts weiter als Nahrung zur Verdummung der verrohten Plebs, schlimmer als Fussball oder Stierkämpfe. Der Cinematograph ist entstanden als eine Erfindung zur Unterhaltung der analphabetischen Massen und fünfzig Jahren später hat sich daran nichts geändert.

Americans are inventing something called television, which will be like the cinema, only at home. There'll be no more need for books, or churches, or anything.

Imagine, they think they've found the Holy Shroud, the real one, bang in downtown Toledo. It had been sewn to a cinema screen, to hide it from the Muslims. Apparently they wanted to use it so they could say Jesus Christ was a black man. What do you make of that?