Quotes About Cinema

South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.

When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you'll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America - maybe even North America.

I went to South Korea once and I saw young people, about 15, they had skipped school to come see 'Band of Outsiders.'

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out.

The satellite and digital space is where the audience for 'Cabaret' lies: a discerning lot who don't rush to the cinema hall on the first day, first show, and prefer instead to consume their entertainment at their time and comfort.

'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination.

When I started working in Mumbai, I was interested in working in the indie and niche spaces, as they do make really good cinema, driven by good stories. But then, I decided to explore everything possible.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

Don't you go to the movies? Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

A volte mi sento come fossimo tutti prigionieri di un film. Sappiamo le battute, sappiamo dove metterci, come recitare, manca solo la macchina da presa. Però non possiamo uscire dal film. Ed è un brutto film.

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Hollywood producer's screening room.

I absolutely loathe adverts. I won't go into the cinema until 20 minutes after the film is due to start because there are so many.

I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

Y'know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it's always kind of miserable. Love doesn't work and then, if it does work, it's suddenly a rom-com.

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

I really miss doing masala films.

The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried to do in 'The Missing Picture' was to reconstruct our identity, to bring it back to the people through cinema.

You're not allowed to mess up in theater, and if you do, it is going to be embarrassing. But in film, if you make a mistake you just do it over again. You can just do another take.