Quotes About Cinema

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

I like "Talk to Her" by [Pedro] Almodovar and "Happiness" by Todd Solondz, "Mullholland Drive" by David Lynch .

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

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

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.