Quotes About Cinema

The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.

In film, in general, you have just so many cliche themes or stories that are told over and over again.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it." Roger Ebert

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

Me trouvant imbibé préalablement de larges doses de cinéma je me trouvais mentalement à peu près dispos

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for the audience to accept.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

Little plots and stories, acted out and screened, can't possibly be called cinema. They have nothing whatever to do with cinema. A cinematographic work is above all a work which would not be possible in any other art form. In other words. it can be created by means of cinema, and cinema alone

A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism—and vice versa. In cinema—as in life—the text, the words, are refracted in everything apart from the words themselves. The words mean nothing— words are water.

The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object

T]he virtue of cinema is that it appropriates time, complete with that material reality to which it is indissolubly bound, and which surrounds us day by day and hour by hour.

I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person's experience—and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer.

For the cinema image is essentially the observation of a phenomenon passing through time.

The cinema image is the observation of a phenomenon passing through time. Time becomes the very foundation of cinema...Time exerts a pressure which runs through the shot ...Just as a quivering reed can tell you about the current or water pressure of a river, in the same way we know the movement of time as it flows through the shot.