Quotes About Cinema

Marketing movies is hard.

The martial arts genre a lot of times has been relegated to B-level action.

I like old movies on television where a man lights a woman's cigarette. That's all they seemed to do in those old movies, the men and women. I'm normally so totally disregardless. But every time I see an old movie on television, I keep a sharp eye out for a man lighting a woman's cigarette.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

Pero Tito, ¿qué esperabas? -respingó mi tío- ¿qué se casaran y tuvieran muchos hijitos? Es una historia de horror, de eso se trata. Los finales felices son un invento del cine, están pensados para que los espectadores coman más palomitas .

on D. W. Griffith] There is not a man working in movies, or a man who cares for them, who does not owe Griffith more than he owes anybody else.

Nunca olvidaré cómo me impresionó, a mí y a toda la sala por cierto, el primer travelling que vi. En la pantalla, una cara avanzaba hacia nosotros, cada vez más grande, como si fuera a tragársenos.

Al término de esta última proyección, la quinta o sexta, se lanzó hacia mí, lleno de alegría, y me dijo: —¡Ya está, Luis, es formidable, lo he entendido todo! Ahora fui yo quien se quedó perplejo. La película narraba una historia extremadamente sencilla, a mi modo de ver. ¿Qué había en ella tan difícil de entender?

A Brazilian film? Naturally, if there's a bed, a woman with a raffish expression, and a man in only his underwear, it could only be Brazilian cinema.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

My education was an education by movies.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.