Quotes About Cinema

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.

Sex and the City: The Movie' - a bit like the All Saints comeback, and the return of the Jammy Dodger, it feels a little staged and all wrong.

I've admired Sivaji Ganesan ever since he staged 'Veerapandiya Kattabomman.'

We know of instances of stage plays being made into films. But I really think that all Tamil films can be staged; I'd like to take up K. Balachander's films and do that.

I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

Kenneth Branagh has his stamp all over 'Thor.'

When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema.

I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.

'Gremlins' is one of those eternal movies that stands the test of time and that everyone loves and knows.

Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.