Quotes About Cinema

As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'

I have known Aparna Sen for many years. We worked together in her film '15 Park Avenue' which was in English.

'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

The sad thing is I don't think I've seen 'Jurassic Park.' Not that it's not an amazing movie, I literally didn't watch film or TV until I was 23 or something.

I am a big fan of 'E.T.,' of course. And I remember watching 'Jurassic Park' - I was so into it. Oh, and 'Schindler's List.' That one was amazing, too.

Lee Chang-dong, Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. I think the three filmmakers tell the stories that they really want to tell. Their movies always reveal what they think must be told. I have a lot of respect for that.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Traditionally in American cinema, Black men and women's participation in world wars is often not even represented at all.

I feel that, particularly because of language, we are handicapped in getting a large world audience. But Hindi cinema has the same ingredients that appeal to the whole world.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

Many from Peshawar starred in our film industry and Lahore too was the hub of films before the Partition.

I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.

Quinn thought for a moment and then he said, "I don't have any papers." True enough, thought Whitfield, and for that matter you don't have any pants either, and so forth. And not much brains left, is my feeling, and I must say a sad shock you are to me and my cinema knowledge of the American gangster.

Plato talks about something called anamnesis, which is when something long forgotten comes to the surface of a man's consciousness. Now, I'll admit that just sounds like a fancy word for remembering something, but actually it's more than that because with remembering, it's not necessary to have forgotten anything, which makes for a subtle distinction. That's what cinema does.

Existen kilómetros de película con todo tipo de aparatos que se enfrentan en los cielos del mundo entero desde septiembre de 1939 hasta final de la segunda Guerra Mundial. Y todos se parecen. Una mancha imprecisa, oscura, surge de la niebla de la película en blanco y negro, destella, se parte en trozos, humea y después se desintegra

The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity for independent film visions to find their footing in a vastly shifting market. They love cinema.

As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.

When I used to visit my relatives' places in Hyderabad, I would keep seeing the posters of Telugu films. It's not a different world for me.