Quotes About Cinema

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.

When dealing with HBO, you actually are dealing with real filmmakers.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

I was brought up on American films.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think we can say we're looking at something fairly new.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I'm not a great fan of very short films.

Campy films almost create real-life cartoons.

My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.