Quotes About Cinema

I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession - 'Psycho' and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect.

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.

I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema.

The thing about action films is that they are high on drama in terms of action sequences, have songs and other things, but content is secondary.

I think content-driven cinema is appealing in terms of even money-making.

In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.

I really love 'Poltergeist.' I think that's a great, terrific movie. I did really love the first 'Friday the 13th.' I thought that was such a crazy movie.

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: You're in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what's going on on-screen takes a lot of work.

I was terrified watching 'Civil War' for the first time.

I am actually terrified of horror films.

For a young, unexposed Nepalese girl, Bollywood was a terrifying experience.

The most terrifying thing I ever saw in a cinema, thanks to the carefully built-up drama, was in the ancient black-and-white film 'The Innocents,' based on Henry James's 'The Turn Of The Screw.' My skin actually crawled with horror.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.

I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of standard eight.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

No os lo vais a creer, pero ayer por la noche, a eso de las cuatro de la madrugada, vi en la tele una película que era mi biografía o mi autobiografía o un resumen de mis días en el puto planeta Tierra. Me cago en la hostia santa, el susto que me dio casi me hizo que me cayera del sillón.