Quotes About Cinema

When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.

When I was a kid, I used to watch all those Sunday afternoon matinees featuring all the Hollywood greats.

When I was in Lochgelly as a boy, I went to the cinema every night - and on Sundays, I used to go to Cowdenbeath and see something there.

I have sung all the songs in '96,' and I have dubbed for the film as well.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

I'm the only composer who has scored for two-three generation of actors. Be it for Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan or Dharmendra, Sunny Deol or Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt - I have done it all.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

In a film, I can show you the beach, the sunset, the roads, while in a play you have to imagine all that.

Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of all time, from 'Nosferatu' to 'Faust' to 'Sunset.'

I really like going to see movies. I know that's super boring but it's true!

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.

Me? I'm the original sad man. I read a book and it makes me sad. See a film: sad. Plays? they really work me over.

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day—would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.