Quotes About Cinema

'Cheeni Kum' was one of the nicest experiences.

Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

I saw 'Boogie Nights' more times before the movie came out than any other movie I had ever seen.

We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.

I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.

The box office is a black money laundry shop. No business is straight.

There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

The cinema is, after all, the most timid of the arts. It never sets trends, it merely reflects them. The harm has been done long before the movies set cameras on the scene. Warring teen-age gangs antedated Rebel Without A Cause , at least in the United States; and the most infamous teen-age killer in Philippine history operated during the liberation times, long before James Dean was heard of.

What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence.

Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

El trabajo era aburrido y le paga una mierda, y por eso el presidente de la junta local del sindicato de operarios de cines independientes y del sindicato nacional de operadores de cine le estaba haciendo un favor laboral a Tyler Durden dándole una diplomática patada en el culo.

Give me B movies or give me death!

With this and this - and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below it - the little children can be bitten. Unaesthetic as it may seem, vampires bite out of one side of the mouth, and one side only, which is only common sense. The upper canines in themselves are little more than daggers, useless in tearing flesh without employing the lower canines to help pin the skin together. Preoccupied with the erotic, the cinema necessarily rides roughshod over such technicalities.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

The creation of artificial realities is not much different from how people enjoy today's movies depicting life in Ancient Egypt, life during the Middle Ages, depiction of various wars, or life during the Renaissance.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.