Quotes About Cinema

I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.

Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.

It is true that there are some surface similarities between my mother and Mrinalini's character since both were successful commercial actresses in the 1970s in Bengali cinema. In that sense I have taken cues from my mother about how to portray the younger Mrinalini.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

I miss the generation of actors such as John Mills, where it doesn't surprise you at all when he crops up in a film tap-dancing.

Ekk Deewana Tha' will have a surprise ending to watch out for.

Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema.

He looked up rather sadly. "So would I. So would we all. But show business has always been like that—any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard—well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights.

Playing Cupid, I should have you know, isn't just a matter of flying around Arcadia and feeling your tiny winkle throb when the lovers finally kiss. It's to do with timetables and street maps, cinema times and menus, money and organisation. You have to be both jaunty cheerleader and lithe psychiatrist. You require the binary skill of being absent when present, and present when absent.

Como una bestia acosada que echa huir hacia una cueva, me abrí paso entre aquella selva humana y me refugié desesperadamente, a todo correr, en un cine cercano. Pues, para un monstruo, ese mercado de oscuridad era el único lugar seguro

We are time machines! The truth's been right in front of our noses since cinema was invented. Hell, since photography was invented. Hell, since writing was invented. Make an image of something, and it escapes the flow of time. That's why it's forbidden! Dickens had a grasp on it with his ghosts, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley almost got it, and Einstein came so close to the truth.

I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.