Quotes About Cinema

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

So pathetic," he said, with a grunt. "So sad. Such a cliche. You can be so fond of cinema, of world literature, the classics, but then, when you find yourself playing out a classic scene, you don't feel ennobled, linked to that greatness. You feel...pathetic.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

There's always room for giallo

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."