Quotes About Cinema

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to be bankers or doctors nor lawyers or professors. That's why they concentrated on something new: cinema.

I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.

We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

What makes film music different is that we are always given a situation and we make the song accordingly.

I love song and dance films in Bollywood.

The kind of films I do and I've done don't have song and dance sequences.