Quotes About Cinema

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

Je vais t'embrasser parce que j'en ai eu envie toute la matinée. Et je t'avertis parce que ça va être un putain de baiser de cinéma, alors prépare toi. Tu m'as promis de ne pas tombée amoureuse alors je comprendrai si finalement tu changes d'avis après.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa's films can be an exercise in endurance.

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Gable suited MGM because Gable was larger than life. Cagney suited Warner Brothers because Cagney was life.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.