Quotes About Cinema

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

I think where policy fails cinema can help to bring people together.

The public should want to see a movie and it should entertain them. If it fails to do so, it is not good cinema.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

The cinema I particularly love is the cinema of the golden age of the studios in the 1930s. One of the really nice things about it was the way teams of actors and directors and crew people worked together again and again.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

I'm interested in all the new ideas, such as 3-D and widescreen, but I don't believe the technical method of presentation is the real important thing.

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.

If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.

With the advanced editing technologies, it's not difficult to play double roles these days. It can be done easily.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Anybody can do glamorous roles. With the latest technology, any girl can be shown beautifully on screen.

Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.

'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.

When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.'