Quotes About Cinema

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking the smugglers of Moonfleet.

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

At the cinema we do not think, we are thought.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

I always feel that a man and a woman, who do not like the same films, will eventually divorce.

Art and theory of art, at one and the same time ; beauty and the secret of beauty ; cinema, and apologia for cinema. ' - Godard on Godard: Critical Writings

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

I don't know what will be left of me fifty years from now. I suspect that all films will have aged terribly and that the cinema probably won't even exist anymore. My guess is that the final disappearance of cinemas will take place around the year 2020, so in fifty years' time, there will be nothing but television.

I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

My love for cinema began with the talkies, around 1929 or '30. The first time I heard a word coming from a screen was White Shadows in the South Seas by Van Dyke and Flaherty, when Monte Blue suddenly said, "Civilization, civilization." It was the first time I'd heard talking cinema. At that moment I fell madly in love.

Movies are like magic tricks.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.