Quotes About Cinema

I think on our first two movies we weren't really writing for anybody else above us and that's not to say that movies aren't ours in the way we want them to be in terms of the scripts.

I was mesmerised by South cinema and the kind of work is done out here.

I can safely say that there are dozens of places on 'Titania' to watch a film with friends. I would estimate there's something like 50 televisions on board, some of which are very big-screen, some of which drop out of ceilings on the outdoor decks.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.

No matter what kind of film audiences pay money to watch, they definitely expect to be entertained. They want to forget the outside world and have a good laugh while watching a movie.

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

I don't enjoy doing over-the-top action entertainers.

We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

The best movies leave audiences feeling glad to be alive, human, and reaching out to one another."—ROBERT WISE, AFI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

How can they say Coming to a theater near you when they don't even know where you live?

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

There is no American cinema; there are American cinemas.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

The spring evenings had grown long, and it was hard to darken the room. They sat in their separate chairs and waited for Fassbinder, their silence a respectful preparation. They had waited this way for their meetings with Truffaut, Bergman, Visconti, Renoir, Wilder, and all the other honored guests that Jonna had chosen and enthroned–the finest present she could give her friend.

Cinema is a collaboration where everyone tries to erase everyone else's work.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.