Quotes About Cinema

I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'

I would definitely want to essay meatier roles in good films.

I'm really drawn to European films.

Americans don't like European movies.

I'd like to do one European film a year.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

I prefer the European films that are like, 'No, it's over! They both die. The End.'

A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.

My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.

I want a film which really hurts your eyes.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

This morning I met a woman with a golden nose. She was riding in a Cadillac with a monkey in her arms. Her driver stopped and she asked me, "Are you Fellini?" With this metallic voice she continued, "Why is it that in your movies, there is not even one normal person?" —FEDERICO FELLINI

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I always wanted to make movies.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

One of them was Jake Eberts, a film producer whose works include Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, A River Runs through It, The Killing Fields, and Chicken Run, and whose films received sixty-six Oscar nominations and seventeen Oscar wins (he passed away in 2012).