Quotes About Cinema

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

and deeply seductive, storytelling tropes that you see in cinema.

Here is how to sit through small openings of your father's first art films, surrounded by surly foreign cigarette smoke and conversations so pretentious you literally cannot believe them, you're sure you have misheard them.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Infinite Jest (III). B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Uncredited cast; 16/35 mm.; color; sound. Unfinished, unseen remake of Infinite Jest (I), (II). UNRELEASED

Neoclassical Assumptions in Contemporary Prescriptive Grammar," "The Implications of Post-Fourier Transformations for a Holographically Mimetic Cinema," "The Emergence of Heroic Stasis in Broadcast Entertainment" —' ' "Montague Grammar and the Semantics of Physical Modality"?' ' "A Man Who Began to Suspect He Was Made of Glass"?' ' "Tertiary Symbolism in Justinian Erotica"?

They're all gone. Truffaut, Resnais, Antonioni, De Sica, Kazan. At least Godard is still alive, but he always was a nonconformist

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.