Quotes About Cinema

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.

In a film festival, people come to watch because they are interested in cinema. It's not like watching a premiere show or being in any cinema hall, where you are not with like-minded people.

When 'The Kid' made its premiere I was so young I fell asleep and never saw the movie.

I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.

I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role.

Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of idle machines and empty seats. When the crisis of the pandemic gets over and it is safe for all of us to go back to that experience we must, in hordes.

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.

'Five Easy Pieces' got to me pretty good. I remember seeing it and thinking, 'That is so cool. I would love to be able to do that.'

I saw 'Predators.' That was pretty good, actually.

One of my favorite movies is 'Broadway Danny Rose.'

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.

I think if I had a choice, I'd like to be in a film with De Niro.

When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.

I made my film debut in 1973.

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.