Quotes About Cinema

Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.

I like being a part of David Cronenberg's world, I feel very at home there

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to.

Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.

scanning the selection of movies, but suddenly they all seem fake and horrible and awful—full of false promises and bullshit happy endings.

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

Eso de estar siempre conjeturando cómo será el futuro es una deficiencia humana, y de esa deficiencia surgió el cine.

Everything after Star Wars is shit.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.