Quotes About Cinema

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.

The kind of films I am doing are moderately budgeted and are with A-listers.

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.

I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.

I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.'

Moon's' a good movie.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

The more people who see a film, the more life it has. But I don't like when people watch DVDs and look at two scenes, but they don't look at the whole movie. Or they sit and talk to each other. You should always watch a movie all the way through.

What's very important for me is that I want family audiences - all kinds of audiences - to watch my films, and the more people who watch the movies, the better. So I want to be part of popular cinema.

Ultimately, if you act in mainstream movies, more people will come and watch your indie movies. That's how you reach the audience.

I feel that cinema, if made entertainingly with a certain meaning, reaches out to a lot more people. It makes them aware of issues or things that help people to understand what's around them.

Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.

I want to be in a Tarantino movie, more than anything in the world.

Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.

When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.

I have two mothers - Maa and cinema, so I am grateful to Bollywood for giving me a lot.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.