Quotes About Cinema

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Film and art are close together.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.