Quotes About Cinema

I do films that amuse me and I can enjoy watching.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

I'm anxious to make another film.

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

I have a special appearance in Khalid Mohamed's 'Tehzeeb.'

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself.

Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they're kind of know-it-alls - they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves.

Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.

I think, for an artiste, it's important to be aware of world cinema.

There are lots of people I'd like to work with. It would be fun to be in a movie with Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

When we started shooting New Jack City in April of 1990, I wasn't nervous anymore; I was fucking scared. Chris Rock was, too. We had a lot of heavy, dramatic scenes to pull off and we were both feeling the pressure.

One thing I learned on New Jack City is that when you're making a movie, the trick is to make it feel real but not be

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

I have seen both versions of 'The Italian Job' and loved both of them.

Dubbing has become big now with dubbed versions of 'Baahubali' doing so well.

In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.