Quotes About Cinema

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage.

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.

I always wanted to design for films.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

I think every film has a destiny.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Bill Condon has made some excellent movies.

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.