Quotes About Cinema

Bachchan is the luckiest man on earth. No one knows the nuance of the Hindi language or can incorporate elements from stage on to the Hindi cinema the way he does.

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

I'm obsessed with 'Rocky.' We went 13 times to the theater.

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?

But alas, the cinema has taken our breath away so often, investing us in all the splendors of the splendidest American millionaire, or all the heroics and marvels of the Somme or the North Pole, that life has now no magnate richer than we, no hero nobler than we have been, on the film. Connu! Connu! Everything life has to offer is known to us, couldn't be known better, from the film.

Odd, eccentric people they were, these entertainers. Most of them had a streak of imagination, and most of them drank. Most of them were middle-aged. Most of them had an abstracted manner; in ordinary life, they seemed left aside, somehow. Odd, extraneous creatures, often a little depressed, feeling life slip away from them. The cinema was killing them.

Si los paseantes de Poe arrojan todavía vistazos carentes de sentido en todas direcciones, los contemporáneos se ven obligados a prestar su máxima atención a las señales viales. De tal manera es que la técnica subyugaba al aparato sensorial humano a un arduo entrenamiento, hasta que llegó el momento en que el cine tuvo correspondencia con una novedosa y perentoria necesidad de estimulación.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.

The studios seem to think people go to the cinema to listen. They don't. They go to watch.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.