Quotes About Cinema

The cinema began as an invention for entertaining masses.

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...

De tous les arts, seul le cinéma resta jusqu'à la fin du nazisme un refuge possible pour les Noirs.

Compte tenu de la rareté relative des Allemands noirs et du nombre élevé de figurants nécessités par l'usine à images de Goebbels, le cinéma devint un moyen privilégié de survie pour échapper au pire.

When people are enjoying a film they say I didn't see the time go by… but I think that when time flies and you don't see time passing by you are robbed of an hour and a half or two hours of your life. Because all you have in life is time. With my films you're aware of every second passing through your body.

The Punjabi industry lacks a lot in terms of good production houses and actors.

Some felt my looks would not go down with the Bengali audience. They felt I was not photogenic. Others felt I was just what Bengali cinema needed when there was lack of glamour for heroine roles and there were few leading ladies around.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema.

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I made my debut on big screen, and many thanks to my mentor T. Rajendhar for introducing me to films.

It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.

I've always liked the idea of merging esoteric art cinema with down-and-dirty exploitation films.