Quotes About Cinema

I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

The director Stanley Kubrick, no doubt attracted by the unusual visuals of urban combat, set Full Metal Jacket in Hue, although in his film the battle is just a backdrop.

The truth, which should be apparent to anyone with a vaguely cynical soul, is that 3-D will always be the past, and is only being rammed down our throats as something excitingly 'new' right now because it is much harder to pirate 3-D films than good old flat ones. Big Hollywood studios want you to believe in 3-D because they want to carry on believing in their own bank accounts. It has nothing to do with 'the future' of cinema, merely the future of film finance.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Jude Law is in so many movies, that I went to one, and when I walked out they were showing another on the back wall.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)

Westerners who've never traveled abroad don't realize the extent to which American movies and actors, and Hollywood imagery, dominate overseas cinemas and markets.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Someone, maybe it was Pauline Kael, once wrote that "we all love good movies but a true cinephile is someone who totally digs talking about the worst movies they've seen.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies, period.

174) Intimidating Snape Harry was so scared of Alan Rickman because "he was so fantastic at what he did I was freaked" that he had to keep telling himself "it's only a film, it's only a film ... nothing's real".

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.