Quotes About Cinema

I love to see great dialogue in the cinema but I hate to see 'Film TV.'

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

I have died in enough TV and films.

Different characters help you grow in cinema.

I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

Different kind of cinema is being created, people are coming up with different kind of scripts, they are able to come up with scripts that work with the audiences and also scripts which will have something to say to the audience, which is a heart-warming thing.

'Blue is the Warmest Colour' - I'm not a lesbian, I'm not French, I'm not a woman, but I saw so much of myself in those women and in those characters. I saw different parts of myself than I ever would've seen if I hadn't seen that film.

I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.

Every four or five films we've made a film that has gone on TV first. It's quite nice to tap into the TV audience, but it is nice to see it on the big screen too.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

Cannes Film Festival prefers political films. We have to target certain festivals based on our films.

It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me.

We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.

Seventies cinema - 'Taxi Driver,' 'Deliverance' - that was the best period of American cinema.

I've never been into monster movies, not my cup of tea.

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.