Quotes About Cinema

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

I so hate the term Bollywood. I know it's become synonymous with the industry but really we are 'Indian cinema.'

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

Maybelline's favorite movies were the love stories.

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

O senhor gostaria de ir ao cinema comigo? É de graça.

To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema . . . reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Movies are] like writing history with lightning.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Slapstick was named after the battacio, or 'slap stick,' which made a dramatic popping sound when actors hit one another with it and which was used in the Commedia dell'arte, an Italian stage tradition whose blend of stereotype, sketch and shtick was passed down through circus and pantomime to vaudeville and burlesque and into cinema

But most good movies have a gun in them.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

Film brings people together.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

I considered that the world, and especially the cinema, was burdened with false gods. My task was to overthrow them. Sword in hand, I was ready to consecrate my life to the task. But the false gods are still there. My perseverance during a half-century of cinema has perhaps helped to topple a few of them. It has likewise helped me to discover that some of the gods were real, and had no need to be toppled.