Quotes About Cinema

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

I honestly dont know whether I can ever top the experience of Pacific Rim.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.

'Teen Spirit' is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Potom zamru svi zvuci, svjetla se zamra?e, a njegove o?i sklope, i njemu se u?ini kao da po?inje neki film...

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

Your president only speaks for Americans. American movies speak for your world. Who hasn't seen Wizard of Oz? Or Jaws? Or Star Wars? We've seen them, and we're not even from this planet.

She gives over to him her desiccated but oddly perfect smile, a smile such as flickered from the old black-and-white movie screens, coy and certain, a smile like a thread of pure melody, that when she was young must have seemed likely to lift her life far above where it eventually settled

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

It takes no time for a small drama in life to become a wide screen cinema with a big blown music for only others to enjoy.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.