Quotes About Cinema

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

If I like a movie, I see no reason not to go back for Parts 2, 3, 4, etc.

I like to go and watch 'Blade Runner,' which made no sense but which I loved going into that world. I think people loved going into the world of 'Dune' with all of its problems.

Director Lee Chang-dong's 1997 noir 'Green Fish.' I was attending middle school when I first watched the piece. And although I could not completely understand the film and where it was getting at, I still found it extremely powerful.

I wanted to work with Sriram Raghavan, the master of noir.

I grew up on film noir.

Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films - where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor, and still nothing happens at the end of the shot. Those films tried to be cool and fashionable by dispensing with drama, which, in my opinion, is absolute nonsense.

Innumerable lovers of Hindi cinema have lit up the big screen. But on screen, they are just two beautiful bodies. They have no caste nor religion. The love that our filmmakers imagined was little more than make-believe.

In Tamil, three-hour films are normal.

Most Hindi movies tend to dramatise events. They are very dialogue heavy. Characters don't speak like people normally do in real life.

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and movies like that.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

I was not interested by cinema when I was young.

Why would you watch an Oscar-nominated film unless you're mad enough to purposely experience feelings? Bleh. I'm not interested in catching those.

People think that I'm not interested in doing Marathi films, but that's not true. Marathi cinema is very close to my heart.

I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.

We weren't big 'Notebook' fans or anything.

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.