Quotes About Cinema

And if you think this young boy, from Dallas, Texas, is adding to the canon of theater arts, of performing arts, of cinema, well I'm humbled and I'm very excited.

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.

I want Punjabi film industry to make it's way into the text books, so that when children read about this industry they should know how it reached to its glory.

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.

Thank goodness for IMDB.

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

I am thankful to all those who gave me opportunities in the film industry.

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

I grew up watching English films and listening to The Doors and The Beatles.

Slumdog Millionaire has been a great achievement. It has opened the doors of Hollywood for Indian cinema.

I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

So I feel now very much like a guardian. I'm standing in front of art. I'm standing in front of cinema. I'm standing in front of Black culture. I'm standing in front of the history of America, and I'm protecting it by making art, by protecting our art, and by promoting our art.

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at larger ideas or important meaning. And you don't see that as much as you'd think in the history of horror cinema. A lot of times, it's scariness for scariness' own sake.

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Ever since I was a little kid, the only thing that fascinated me, excited me, and engaged me was Hindi films. I didn't know anything beyond Hindi films. I was a 'filmi bachcha.'

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

Film has to reflect the real world.