Quotes About Cinema

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.

Even when people are watching a movie in a multiplex, they insult the film by constantly checking their phones and flashing lights. At times, even when the audience is being told to not flash their cameras, they do, and you can't do anything because it's a habit for them and they can't stop. I don't want that for myself.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

We've had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

Picking up 'A Gentleman' was pretty easy. It had everything that I like watching in a film. And it has everything that audiences like to see me doing.

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.