Quotes About Cinema

I am a student of cinema, and I love filmmaking of all kinds.

I'm a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

I did plays because I liked plays. I studied psychology because I was fascinated by the subject, and I hope to keep doing films because I love the medium.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I went to NYU thinking I was going to make a 'Die Hard' sequel, or maybe action and genre films for the studios, but I ended up falling in love with personal cinema.

I've always said that we must do local cinema but not lose sight of national appeal. That's the way New Theatres, L V Prasad, Gemini Studios operated.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios at that time that you can't fit into one film.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.

In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally.