Quotes About Cinema

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

In film, you can have sad endings.

14 h 45. Pour la première fois, j'ose téléphoner à l'ambassade d'URSS pour savoir (cela, savoir, savoir...) s'il y a ou non cinéma aujourd'hui. C'est non et je suis un peu soulagée, juste de ma jalousie, non de mon désir de le voir.

Il suivait l'avance des armées sur une carte accrochée dans la cuisine, découvrait les journaux polissons et allait au cinéma à Y... Tout le monde lisait à haute voix le texte sous l'image, beaucoup n'avaient pas le temps d'arriver au bout.

The professionalism and everything is same in both the industries. The only difference between Bhojpuri cinema and Bollywood is budget.

Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.

The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.

I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level.

I always wanted to play a bigger part in the process of cinema, so production felt like a very natural progression and calling.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.

Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.

Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.