Quotes About Cinema

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

I do enjoy animated movies.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1, 000 movies during college.

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.