Quotes About Cinema

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

I like the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways , and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

el cine se mueve en un nivel más cercano a la música y a la pintura que a la palabra escrita. Por eso, las películas ofrecen la oportunidad de explicar conceptos y abstracciones sin la tradicional dependencia de las palabras. En dos horas y cuarto , hay tan sólo cuarenta de diálogo [en 2001: una odisea del espacio] Stanley Kubrick Entrevista al New York Times el 1 de abril de 1953

We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?

A gente deve ir ao cinema como vai a um bordel ou a um templo.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Watching Nicholson talking Towne was like listening to Bob Dylan playing with the Band.

Screenplays are structure, and that's all they are. The

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.